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Bible in Basic English
Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
New American Standard Bible
Than great income with injustice.
King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Holman Bible
than great income with injustice.
International Standard Version
A little gain with righteousness is better than great income without justice.
A Conservative Version
Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
American Standard Version
Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Amplified
Better is a little with righteousness
Than great income [gained] with injustice.
Darby Translation
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
Julia Smith Translation
Good a little with justice above abundance of increase with no judgment
King James 2000
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without justice.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.
Modern King James verseion
Better is a little with righteousness than great gain without right.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Better it is to have a little thing with righteousness, than great rents wrongfully gotten.
NET Bible
Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
New Heart English Bible
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
The Emphasized Bible
Better a little with righteousness, than large revenues, without justice.
Webster
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
World English Bible
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Youngs Literal Translation
Better is a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.
Themes
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Greed/gluttony » Greedy gain with trouble
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 16:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him. 8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing. 9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
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Cross References
Psalm 37:16
The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.
Proverbs 15:16
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.
Proverbs 21:6-7
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
Micah 6:10
Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
1 Timothy 6:6-9
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit: