Proverbs 16:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 5 In the cheerfulness of the king's countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Better is a little with righteousness Than great revenues without right.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.

Common English Bible

⁸ Better a little with righteousness than great profits without justice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Better is a little with justice, than many fruits with iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.

Proverbs 16:8 Cross References

Psalm 37:16

3 With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way.

Proverbs 15:16

3 A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.

Proverbs 15:17

4 The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

Proverbs 16:7

4 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death : and the wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 16:9

6 Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.

Proverbs 17:1

The expectation of him that expecteth, is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.

Proverbs 28:6

3 He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

3 Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

Jeremiah 17:11

9 Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:

Micah 6:10

The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.