“Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 28 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.