Proverbs 12:9 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Better is a pauper who has what he needs, than someone glorious and in need of bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better Than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Better is he who is lightly esteemed but works for his own support than he who assumes honor for himself and lacks bread.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.

Common English Bible

⁹ Better to be held in low regard and have a servant than to be conceited and lack food.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.

Proverbs 12:9 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Proverbs 12:10

The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

Proverbs 12:8

A man will be known by his doctrine. But whoever is vain and heartless will suffer contempt.

Proverbs 13:7

One is like the rich, though he has nothing. And another is like the poor, though he has many riches.

Matthew 15:8

'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted."