6Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: …
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6)Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness —also that a man may be perverse in his ways , injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for a while, may be rich, and so lie under great obligations and have great opp…
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