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

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Better to be poor and walking in one’s integrity
    than to be crooked of ways when one is rich.

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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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Footnotes

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

18 He who walks in integrity will be safe,
    but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one.

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