Proverbs 19:1 Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.

English Standard Version
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

New American Standard Bible
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.

King James Bible
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Better a poor man who lives with integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.

International Standard Version
A poor man who walks blamelessly is better than a fool who speaks perversely.

American Standard Version
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips, and unwise.

Darby Bible Translation
Better is a poor man that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Young's Literal Translation
Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:1 A poor man who fears God, is more honourable and happy, than a man without wisdom and grace, however rich or advanced in rank. 2. What good can the soul do, if without knowledge? And he sins who will not take time to ponder the path of his feet.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 19

Pr 19:1-29.

1. (Compare Pr 28:6). "Rich" for fool here. Integrity is better than riches (Pr 15:16, 17; 16:8).