Proverbs 16:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Better is a little with righteousness Than great revenues without right.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Better is a little with righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation and right standing with God) than great revenues with injustice. [Ps. 37:16; Prov. 15:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.

Common English Bible

Better a little with righteousness than great profits without justice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Better is a little with justice, than many fruits with iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.

Proverbs 16:8 Cross References

Psalm 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous person has than the abundance of many wicked.

Proverbs 15:16

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 16:7

When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

Proverbs 16:9

The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 28:6

Better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quiet than two handfuls with toil and a chasing after wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Micah 6:10

Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the despicable false measure?