Amsal 19:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lebih baik seorang miskin yang bersih kelakuannya dari pada seorang yang serong bibirnya lagi bebal.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lebih baik seorang miskin yang bersih kelakuannya dari pada seorang yang serong bibirnya lagi bebal.

Contextual Overview

¹ Better is the poore that liueth godly, then he that abuseth his lippes, and is a foole.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Better: Proverbs 19:22, Proverbs 12:26, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 16:8, Proverbs 28:6, Psalms 37:26, Matthew 16:26, James 2:5, James 2:6

perverse: 1 Samuel 25:17, 1 Samuel 25:25, Isaiah 59:3, Matthew 12:31-34

Reciprocal: Psalms 7:8 - to mine Psalms 119:141 - small Proverbs 20:7 - just Proverbs 28:11 - the poor Ecclesiastes 4:13 - is a poor Ecclesiastes 6:8 - the poor Luke 6:20 - Blessed Acts 20:30 - speaking James 1:9 - the brother James 1:26 - bridleth

Cross-References

Genesis 18:22
And the men departed thence, & went to Sodomeward: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lorde.

Genesis 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde.

Genesis 19:5
And they callyng vnto Lot, sayde vnto hym: Where are the men whiche came in to thee this nyght? bryng them out vnto vs, that we may knowe them.

Job 31:32
The straunger dyd not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him that went by the way.

Hebrews 13:2
Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: For therby some hauyng lodged Angels, were vnawares therof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity,.... In the uprightness of his heart before God and men; who is sincere in the worship of God, and in the profession of his name, and walks in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; and is upright, harmless, and inoffensive in his conversation with men; and studies to exercise a conscience void of offence to both, and continues herein. A man may be a poor man with respect to worldly things, and yet be rich towards God; may be a truly gracious good man, honest, sincere, and upright in heart and life: and such an one is better

than [he that] is perverse in his lips, and is a fool; that is, than a rich man, as the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions supply it, and as the antithesis requires; "that is perverse in his lips", or "whose ways are perverse", as the Syriac version; that acts the deceitful part both by words and actions towards those that are about him, not being honest and plain hearted as the poor man is; and who uses those beneath him very roughly; and concerning oppression speaks loftily, and lets his tongue run both against God in heaven and man on earth, by which he shows he is a fool: for his riches do not give him wisdom; and his words and actions declare he wants it; men may be poor, and yet wise; and a matt may be rich, and yet a fool: or is confident d; that is, trusts in his riches, and is opposed to a poor man, so R. Saadiah Gaon. This verse and Proverbs 19:2 are not in the Septuagint and Arabic versions.

d כסיל "confidens divitiis", Cocceii Lexic. col. 384.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “perverse” man is the rich fool, as contrasted with the poor man who is upright.

Proverbs 19:1-2 are missing in the Septuagint.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIX

The worth of a poor upright man. Riches preserve friends. False

witnesses. False friends. A king's wrath. The foolish son. The

prudent wife. Slothfulness. Pity for the poor. The fear of the

Lord. The spendthrift son. Obedience to parents.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIX

Verse Proverbs 19:1. Better is the poor — The upright poor man is always to be preferred to the rich or self-sufficient fool.