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Better to be Poor with Integrity

19 Better to be poor, walking with integrity,
than be a fool whose lips are corrupt.
Zeal without knowledge is not good,[a]
or to act hastily and miss the way.
A man’s folly undermines his way,
and his heart rages against Adonai.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:2 cf. Rom. 10:2.

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

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

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