Proverbiorum 12:9

Melior est pauper et sufficiens sibi quam gloriosus et indigens pane.

Vulgata Clementina

In The King James Version

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

In Context

8Doctrina sua noscetur vir; qui autem vanus et excors est patebit contemptui.

10Novit justus jumentorum suorum animas; viscera autem impiorum crudelia.

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Cross References

Proverbs 13:7Est quasi dives, cum nihil habeat, et est quasi pauper, cum in multis divitiis sit.

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