Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
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.
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 the ways of a man are pleasing [to] Yahweh, even his enemies he will cause to make peace with him. 8 Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice. 9 The {mind} of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.
Phrases
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Cross References
Psalm 37:16
[The] little belonging to the righteous [is] better than [the] wealth of many wicked.
Proverbs 15:16
Better [is] little with the fear of Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it.
Proverbs 21:6-7
He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.
Jeremiah 17:11
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Micah 6:10
Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed?
1 Timothy 6:6-9
But godliness with contentment is a great means of gain.