“A faithful man shall abound with blessings: But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.”

Context & Editorial Note

This saying appears in Proverbs 28, within the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible, as rendered in the 1611 King James Version. The verse contrasts faithfulness with an impatient pursuit of riches, using the concise parallel style characteristic of biblical proverbs. Its wording presents a moral observation about character and haste rather than a financial rule, and the source record does not identify a specific historical speaker beyond its canonical placement.