Commentaries on Proverbs 28:6

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Better [is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness,.... [See comments on Proverbs 19:1]; than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [be] rich; or, "in [his] two ways" (c): that halts between two ways, or makes use of both; sometimes turns to the one, to the right hand, and sometimes to the other, to the left hand; or that pretends to the one, and walks in the other; would be thought to...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. See here, 1. What continual frights those are subject to that go on in wicked ways. Guilt in the conscience makes men a terror to themselves, so that they are ready to flee when none pursues; like one that absconds for debt, who thinks every one he meets a bailiff. Though they pretend to be easy, there are secret fears...