8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Acts 20:30 — Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• Eccl 4:13 — Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
• Eccl 6:8 — For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
• Jas 1:9 — Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
• Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
• Matt 16:26 — For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
• Prov 14:2 — He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
• Prov 15:16 — Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
• Prov 16:8 — Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
• Prov 19:22 — The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
• Prov 19:22 — The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
• Prov 20:7 — The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
• Prov 20:7 — The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
• Prov 28:6 — Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
• Prov 28:6 — Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
• Prov 28:11 — The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.