PRO 19:1 Parallel View

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ULT Better is one who is poor who walks in his integrity
 ⇔ than one who is crooked in his lips and he is a stupid one.

UST It is better to be poor and behave honestly,
⇔ than to speak deceitfully and be stupid.

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

OEB Better a poor man whose life is blameless
⇔ than one who is crooked, although he be rich.

WEB Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
⇔ than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

NET Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity
 ⇔ than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.

LSV Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity,
Than the perverse [in] his lips—who [is] a fool.

FBV Better to be poor but honest than stupid and tell lies.

T4T Conducting our lives as we should even though we are poor
⇔ is better than being foolish and telling lies.

LEB No LEB PRO 19:1 verse available

BBE Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

MOF No MOF PRO book available

JPS Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity than he that is perverse in his lips and a fool at the same time.

ASV Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity
 ⇔ Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

DRA Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips, and unwise.

YLT Better [is] the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse [in] his lips, who [is] a fool.

DBY Better is a poor [man] that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

RV Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity than he that perverse in his lips and is a fool.

WBS Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity than he that perverse in his lips and is a fool.

KJB Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

BB Better is the poore that liueth godly, then he that abuseth his lippes, and is a foole.
(Better is the poor that liveth/lives godly, then he that abuseth his lippes, and is a foole.)

GNV Better is the poore that walketh in his vprightnes, then he that abuseth his lips, and is a foole.
(Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightnes, then he that abuseth his lips, and is a foole.)

CB Better is the poore that lyueth godly, the the blasphemer that is but a foole.
(Better is the poor that liveth/lives godly, the the blasphemer that is but a foole.)

WYC Betere is a pore man, that goith in his simplenesse, than a riche man bitynge hise lippis, and vnwijs.
(Betere is a poor man, that goeth/goes in his simplenesse, than a rich man bitynge his lippis, and unwijs.)

LUT Ein Armer, der in seiner Frömmigkeit wandelt, ist besser denn ein Verkehrter mit seinen Lippen, der doch ein Narr ist.
(Ein Armer, the in his Frömmigkeit wandelt, is besser because a Verkehrter with his Lippen, the though/but a Narr is.)

CLV [Melior est pauper qui ambulat in simplicitate sua quam dives torquens labia sua, et insipiens.
([Melior it_is pauper who ambulat in simplicitate sua how dives torquens labia sua, and insipiens.)

BRN No BRN PRO 19:1 verse available

BrLXX No BrLXX PRO 19:1 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

רָ֭שׁ & בְּ⁠תֻמּ֑⁠וֹ מֵ⁠עִקֵּ֥שׁ שְׂ֝פָתָ֗י⁠ו וְ⁠ה֣וּא כְסִֽיל

poor & in/on/at/with,integrity,his than,perverse speech,his and=he fool

Here, one who is poor, his, one who is crooked, he, and a stupid one refer to types of people in general, not specific people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “is a poor person … in that person’s integrity than a person who is crooked in that one’s lips and is a stupid person”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

הוֹלֵ֣ךְ בְּ⁠תֻמּ֑⁠וֹ

walking in/on/at/with,integrity,his

Here, Solomon speaks of a person behaving with integrity as if integrity were a place that person walks in. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. See how you translated a similar use of “walk” in 3:23. Alternate translation: “who behaves with integrity”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

בְּ⁠תֻמּ֑⁠וֹ

in/on/at/with,integrity,his

See how you translated the abstract noun integrity in 1:3.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

מֵ⁠עִקֵּ֥שׁ שְׂ֝פָתָ֗י⁠ו

than,perverse speech,his

Here, Solomon uses the phrase crooked in his lips to refer to someone who speaks deceptively. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. See how you translated the similar use of crooked in 2:15. Alternate translation: “than one who speaks with deception”

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