Proverbs 19:1 (BSB)

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:1

• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 19:1-6: A man [that hath] friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother. (q) That is, often such are found who are more ready to do pleasure, than he that is more bound by duty.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 19:1: Pro 19:1 The plur. רעים, Pro 18:24, is emphatic and equivalent to רעים רבּים. The group Pro 19:1-4 closes with a proverb which contains this catchword. The first proverb of the group comes by שׂפתיו into contact with Pro 18:20, the first proverb of the preceding group. 1 Better a poor man walking in his innocence, Than one with perverse lips, and so a fool.