Proverbs 16:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

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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

Better is a little that the righteous 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 herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 16:7

When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:9

A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 17:1

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

Proverbs 28:6

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by right; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

Micah 6:10

Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?