19 Better a poor man who lives with integrity(A)
than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.

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19 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than a fool whose lips are perverse.(A)

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19 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

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Better a poor man who lives with integrity(A)
than a rich man who distorts right and wrong.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:6 Lit who twists two ways

Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.(A)

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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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