Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?
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- Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14–16 The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all. Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity. For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!
- Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.