Proverbs 12:9
9 Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 12:9
Commentary on Proverbs 12:9
(Read Proverbs 12:9)
He that lives in a humble state, who has no one to wait upon him, but gets bread by his own labour, is happier than he that glories in high birth or gay attire, and wants necessaries.