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Proverbs 28:6

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6Better the poor person who lives with integrityn

than the rich one who distorts right and wrong.Ao

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Footnotes

  1. A who twists two ways

Cross references

  1. nPr 19:1; 20:7
  2. oPr 16:8,19; 19:22; Is 5:20

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity

than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Better the poor whose walk is blameless

than the rich whose ways are perverse.

NLTNew Living Translation

Better to be poor and honest

than to be dishonest and rich.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Better to be poor and walking in one’s integrity

than to be crooked of ways when one is rich.

KJV 1900King James Version

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness,

Than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.