Proverbs 16:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 hath Than the abundance of many wicked.

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of the LORD, Than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Proverbs 16:7

When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:9

A man's heart deviseth his way: But the LORD directeth his steps.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, Than an house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, Than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is an handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and striving after wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that gathereth young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he 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?