Proverbs 28:6 (BSB)

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:6: Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness - also that a man may be perverse in his ways, injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:6: Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness,.... See Gill on Pro 19:1; than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich; or, "in his two ways" (c): 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:6: (Compare Pro 10:6). Riches cannot compensate for sin, nor the want of them affect integrity.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:6: Pro 28:6 What is stated in this proverb is a conclusion from the preceding, with which it is also externally connected, for רשׁ (= ראשׁ), רשׁע, רע, and now רשׁ, follow each other: Better a poor man who walketh in his innocence, Than a double-going deceiver who is rich thereby. A variation of Pro 19:1.