Proverbs Chapter 28 verse 6 Holy Bible
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, Than he that is perverse in `his' ways, though he be rich.
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Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.
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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.
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Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
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Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, Than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
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Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - This is almost the same as Proverbs 19:1, but varies a little in the second hemistich: than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. The Hebrew literally is, perverse of two ways; i.e. who, going one way, pretends to go another; the "two ways" being the evil which he really pursues, and the good which he feigns to follow. Delitzsch calls him "a double-going deceiver." So Siracides imprecates, "Woe to the sinner that goeth two ways" (Ecclus. 2:12). "A double-minded man," says St James (James 1:8), "is unstable in all his ways." It is not the endeavouring to serve God and mammon at the same time that is meant, but putting on the appearance of religion to mask wicked designs - in the present case in order to gain wealth. Septuagint, "A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Better is the poor that walketh . . .--A variation of Proverbs 19:1.Perverse in his ways.--According to the pointing of the text the words signify, "perverse in two ways." That is, the sinner tries to "go two ways" (Ecclesiasticus 2:12); to follow his own way without entirely deserting God's; to "serve God and mammon;" he is "double-minded" (James 1:8), instead of setting before himself God's will as the guide of his life.