Psalm 37:16 - Catholic Public Domain Version For in you, Lord, I have hoped. You will listen to me, O Lord my God. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 A little that a righteous man hath is better Than the riches of many wicked. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Better is the little that the [uncompromisingly] righteous have than the abundance [of possessions] of many who are wrong and wicked. [I Tim. 6:6, 7.] American Standard Version (1901) Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many wicked. Common English Bible Better is the little that the righteous have than the overabundant wealth of the wicked. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God. English Standard Version 2016 Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked. |
Destitution in the house of the impious is from the Lord. But the habitations of the just shall be blessed.
lest perhaps, being filled, I might be enticed into denial, and say: 'Who is the Lord?' Or, being compelled by destitution, I might steal, and then perjure myself in the name of my God.
God has given, to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and rejoicing. But to the sinner, he has given affliction and needless worrying, so as to add, and to gather, and to deliver, to him who has pleased God. But this, too, is emptiness and a hollow worrying of the mind.
"A handful with rest is better than both hands filled with labors and with affliction of the soul."