OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 19:1

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Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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Verse 1. Rich, is not in Hebrew Septuagint Compl. or S. Jerom. Calmet.—But as there is not antithesis between a poor man and a fool, it ought to be inserted, as it is in the Syriac, which reads, “than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.” The MS. 2 confirms “ways.” Kennicott.

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