Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Rich, is not in Hebrew, Septuagint, Complutensian, or St. Jerome. (Calmet)
But as there is no 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 Manuscript 2 confirms "ways. "(Kennicott)
