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

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(A)Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity,
Than a person who is [a]crooked, though he is rich.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:6 Lit perverse of 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

18 One who walks blamelessly will receive help,
But one who is [a](A)crooked will fall all at once.

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  1. Proverbs 28:18 Lit perverse of two ways