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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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Better the poor person who lives with integrity(A)
than the rich one who distorts right and wrong.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:6 Lit who twists two ways

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

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19 The one who works his land
will have plenty of food,(A)
but whoever chases fantasies
will have his fill of poverty.(B)

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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”

25 A greedy person stirs up conflict,(A)
but whoever trusts in the Lord will prosper.(B)

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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”

27 The one who gives to the poor
will not be in need,
but one who turns his eyes away[a]
will receive many curses.(A)

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  1. 28:27 Lit who shuts his eyes