Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
than great income with injustice.
New American Standard Bible
Than great income with injustice.
King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
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.
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
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 16:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
7
He
than great income with injustice.
but the Lord determines his steps.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 37:16
than the abundance of many wicked people.
Proverbs 15:16
than great treasure with turmoil.
Proverbs 21:6-7
is a vanishing mist,
Jeremiah 17:11
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his days
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.
Micah 6:10
and the accursed short measure
in the house of the wicked?
1 Timothy 6:6-9
But godliness with contentment is a great gain.