Proverbs 16:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.”
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BSBPD
“Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Better <FI>is<Fi> a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 16:8 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
- Proverbs 15:16Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
- Proverbs 15:17Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
- Proverbs 17:1Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
- Proverbs 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
- Proverbs 28:6Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
- Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Micah 6:10Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
- 1 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
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