Generosity Makes Rich, Greed Makes Poor (Prov 11:22-28)

Greed is one of the forces that pushes people to do evil things with the expectation that they might get richer. Because of greed, some big and influential people have caused the recent financial global crisis. Closer to our local context, it is noticeable that greed is one of the forces that corrupt people. The author of this brief essay proposes a contextual reading of a cluster of proverbs (11:22-28) where the issues of greed and generosity form the nuclei of the cluster.