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Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries unto the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Eyes. Hebrew, "and thy eye be evil against "This expression denotes one who is a prey to the base passions of avarice, jealousy, envy, chap. xxviii. 54., and Matthew xx. 15. (Calmet) A sin, or draw on punishment. (Menochius) "If thou hast not fed, thou hast killed "thy neighbour in extreme want. (St. Ambrose, Off. ii. 7.) (Worthington)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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