Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues 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.
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.
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.
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 please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. 8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice. 9 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 37:16
Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
Proverbs 15:16
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
Proverbs 21:6-7
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
1 Timothy 6:6-9
But godliness with contentment is great gain.