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Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
    than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,
Than he that is [a]perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

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  1. Proverbs 28:6 Hebrew perverse of two ways.

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

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18 He who walks in integrity will be delivered,
    but he who is perverse in his ways will fall into a pit.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 28:18 Syr: Heb in one

18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered;
But [a]he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

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  1. Proverbs 28:18 Or, he that walketh perversely in two ways

18 The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe,(A)
    but the one whose ways are perverse will fall(B) into the pit.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 28:18 Syriac (see Septuagint); Hebrew into one