Proverbs 28:6

6 Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.

Proverbs 28:6 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 28:6

Better [is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness
(See Gill on Proverbs 19:1); than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [be] rich;
or, "in [his] two ways" ^F3: that halts between two ways, or makes use of both; sometimes turns to the one, to the right hand, and sometimes to the other, to the left hand; or that pretends to the one, and walks in the other; would be thought to be a virtuous and religious man, and to walk in the paths of righteousness and truth, when he walks in those of sin and wickedness. And now a poor man that walks evenly and uprightly, according to the word of God and truth of the Gospel, in the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, and in the paths of faith and holiness, is better than he; more honourable, more comfortable, and happy in life and in death; he has grace now, and will have glory hereafter.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Mykrd) Heb. "duabus viis", Piscator, Cocceius; "pervertens duas vias", Baynus; "duplici via", Michaelis; "gemina via", Schultens, so Ben Melech.

Proverbs 28:6 In-Context

4 Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them.

5 Men of evil do not understand justice, but seekers of Yahweh understand completely.

6 Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.

7 He who keeps instruction [is] a child of understanding, but the companion of gluttons will shame his father.

8 He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.