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Selected Verse: Proverbs 28:6 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 28:6	King James	Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
(Compare Pro 10:6). Riches cannot compensate for sin, nor the want of them affect integrity.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

(Compare Pro 10:6). Riches cannot compensate for sin, nor the want of them affect integrity.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Perverse in his ways - literally, "Perverse in his double ways." Compare Ecclesiasticus 2:12 and Jam 1:8.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Perverse in his ways - literally, "Perverse in his double ways." Compare Ecclesiasticus 2:12 and Jam 1:8.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
What is stated in this proverb is a conclusion from the preceding, with which it is also externally connected, for רשׁ (= ראשׁ), רשׁע, רע, and now רשׁ, follow each other: Better a poor man who walketh in his innocence, Than a double-going deceiver who is rich thereby. A variation of Pro 19:1. Stainlessness, integritas vitae, as a consequence of unreserved devotion to God, gives to a man with poverty a higher worth and nobility than riches connected with falsehood which "halts between two opinions" (Kg1 18:21), and appears to go one way, while in reality it goes another. The two ways דּדכים (cf. Sir. 2:12, οὐαί ἁμαρτωλῷ ... ἐπιβαίνοντι ἐπὶ δύο τρίβους) are, as Pro 28:18, not ways going aside to the right or to the left of the right way, but the evil way which the deceiver truly walks in, and the good way which he pretends to walk in (Fleischer); the two ways of action placed over against one another, by one of which he masks the other.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

What is stated in this proverb is a conclusion from the preceding, with which it is also externally connected, for רשׁ (= ראשׁ), רשׁע, רע, and now רשׁ, follow each other:

Better a poor man who walketh in his innocence,

Than a double-going deceiver who is rich thereby.

A variation of Pro 19:1. Stainlessness, integritas vitae, as a consequence of unreserved devotion to God, gives to a man with poverty a higher worth and nobility than riches connected with falsehood which "halts between two opinions" (Kg1 18:21), and appears to go one way, while in reality it goes another. The two ways דּדכים (cf. Sir. 2:12, οὐαί ἁμαρτωλῷ ... ἐπιβαίνοντι ἐπὶ δύο τρίβους) are, as Pro 28:18, not ways going aside to the right or to the left of the right way, but the evil way which the deceiver truly walks in, and the good way which he pretends to walk in (Fleischer); the two ways of action placed over against one another, by one of which he masks the other.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Better - In a much happier condition.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Better - In a much happier condition.

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