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It’s better to be poor and live a blameless life
    than to be rich but crooked in one’s lifestyle.

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19 Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food,
    but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.

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25 An arrogant[a] man stirs up dissension,
    but anyone who trusts in the Lord prospers.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:25 Or greedy

27 Whoever gives to the poor will never lack,
    but whoever shuts his eyes to their poverty[a] will be cursed.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:27 The Heb. lacks to their poverty