Proverbs - 19:1 Meaning

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

King James Version (KJV)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:1-2 A poor man who fears God, is more honourable and happy, than a man without wisdom and grace, however rich or advanced in rank. 2. What good can the soul do, if without knowledge? And he sins who will not take time to ponder the path of his feet.

“Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?”

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