Proverbs 16:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Better [is] a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Better a little with righteousness, than large revenues, without justice.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Better [is] a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Better is a litle with righteousnesse, then great reuenues without equitie.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Better [is] a little with righteousnesse, then great reuenewes without right.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Better is a little with righteousness than great ingathering acquired unjustly.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. |
Better
2896 {2896} Primeטוֹבtowb{tobe}
From H2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural ( good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb ( well).
[ is] a little
4592 {4592} Primeמְעַטm@`at{meh-at'}
From H4591; a little or few (often adverbial or comparative).
with righteousness
6666 {6666} Primeצְדָקָהts@daqah{tsed-aw-kaw'}
From H6663; rightness (abstractly), subjectively ( rectitude), objectively ( justice), morally ( virtue) or figuratively ( prosperity).
than great
7230 {7230} Primeרֹבrob{robe}
From H7231; abundance (in any respect).
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
revenues
8393 {8393} Primeתְּבוּאָהt@buw'ah{teb-oo-aw'}
From H0935; income, that is, produce (literally or figuratively).
without
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
right.
4941 {4941} Primeמִשְׁפָּטmishpat{mish-pawt'}
From H8199; properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (particularly) divine law, individual or collectively), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly justice, including a particular right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style. |
Proverbs 16:8
_ _ Here, 1. It is supposed that an honest good man may have but a little of the wealth of this world (all the righteous are not rich), — that a man may have but little, and yet may be honest (though poverty is a temptation to dishonesty, Proverbs 30:9, yet not an invincible one), — and that a man may grow rich, for a while, by fraud and oppression, may have great revenues, and those got and kept without right, may have no good title to them nor make any good use of them. 2. It is maintained that a small estate, honestly come by, which a man is content with, enjoys comfortably, serves God with cheerfully, and puts to a right use, is much better and more valuable than a great estate ill-got, and then ill-kept or ill-spent. It carries with it more inward satisfaction, a better reputation with all that are wise and good; it will last longer, and will turn to a better account in the great day, when men will be judged, not according to what they had, but what they did. |
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Proverbs 15:16 Better [is] little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Psalms 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.
1 Timothy 6:6-9 But godliness with contentment is great gain. ... But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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Proverbs 21:6-7 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. ... The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Jeremiah 17:11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Micah 6:10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
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