New Revised Standard Version
What is desirable in a person is loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a liar.

Contemporary English Version
What matters most is loyalty. It's better to be poor than to be a liar.

New American Bible
What is desired of a person is fidelity; rather be poor than a liar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man.

A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man.

desire

1 Chronicles 29:2,3,17 And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the house of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros in great abundance. . . .

2 Chronicles 6:8 The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:

Mark 12:41-44 And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in much. . . .

Mark 14:6-8 But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:2,3,12 That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity. . . .

and

Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips and unwise.

Job 6:15 My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.

Job 17:5 He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.

Psalm 62:9 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Titus 1:2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: