Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
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Barnes' Notes
The “perverse” man is the rich fool, as contrasted with the poor man who is upright. Pro 19:1-2 are missing in the Septuagint.
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
a fool We are left to read in the word rich, from the contrast implied by the parallelism: upright poverty is better than perverse folly, by whatever advantages of wealth, of birth, or of rank, it may…
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