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Chapter 19

Better to be poor and walk in integrity
    than rich and crooked in one’s ways.(A)
Desire without knowledge is not good;
    and whoever acts hastily, blunders.[a]
Their own folly leads people astray;
    in their hearts they rage against the Lord.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 19:2 When not guided by wisdom, appetite—or desire—is not good. “Running feet” (so the Hebrew) miss the mark, i.e., do not reach their destination.
  2. 19:3 One’s own folly destroys one’s life. It is an indication of that folly that one blames God rather than oneself.

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

Desire without knowledge is not good—
    how much more will hasty feet miss the way!(B)

A person’s own folly(C) leads to their ruin,
    yet their heart rages against the Lord.(D)

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