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

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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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19 He who tills his ground will have plenty bread,
    but he who follows fantasies will have plenty of poverty.

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

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  1. Proverbs 28:25 Or greedy

25 The greedy person[a] will stir up strife,
    but he who trusts in Yahweh will be enriched.

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  1. Proverbs 28:25 Literally “wide soul”

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

27 For he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking,
    but for he[a] who turns his eyes, there are many curses.

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  1. Proverbs 28:27 Hebrew “those”