Proverbs 16:8

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.

Psalm 37:16

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

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets 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 treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

Proverbs 16:7

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

Proverbs 16:9

A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

Proverbs 15:17

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

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.