Proverbs 28:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, Than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity than he who willfully goes in double and wrong ways, though he is rich.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, Than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Common English Bible

⁶ Better to be poor and walk in innocence than to be on crooked paths and wealthy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Better is the pauper walking in his simplicity, than the rich walking in ways of depravity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.

Proverbs 28:6 Cross References

Proverbs 14:2

Those who walk uprightly fear the Lord, but one who is devious in conduct despises him.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice.

Proverbs 19:1

Better the poor walking in integrity than one perverse of speech who is a fool.

Proverbs 19:22

What is desirable in a person is loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a liar.

Proverbs 28:18

One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.