Proverbs 16:8

New English Translation

Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.

Cross References

Psalm 37:16

The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men,

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it.

Proverbs 15:17

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.

Proverbs 16:7

When a person’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.

Proverbs 16:9

A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 28:6

A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”

Micah 6:10

“I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.