Proverbs 16:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ Better is a little with righteousness, Than a large income without right-ruling.

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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.

Proverbs 16:8 Cross References

Psalm 37:16

Better is the little of the righteous one, Than the riches of many wrongdoers.

Proverbs 15:16

Better is a little with the fear of יהוה, Than great treasure with trouble.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a meal of vegetables where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred.

Proverbs 16:7

When a man’s ways please יהוה, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way, But יהוה  establishes his steps.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry piece of bread and rest with it, Than a house filled with the offerings of strife.

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than one perverse in his ways, who is rich.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a hand filled with rest than both hands filled with toil and feeding on wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Micah 6:10

“Are there still treasures of wrongness in the house of the wrong, and the short measure that is an abomination?”