Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.
New American Standard Bible
Than great treasure and turmoil with it.
King James Version
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Holman Bible
than great treasure with turmoil.
International Standard Version
Better is a little accompanied by fear of the LORD than abundant wealth with turmoil.
American Standard Version
Better is little, with the fear of Jehovah, Than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Amplified
Better is a little with the [reverent, worshipful] fear of the Lord
Than great treasure and trouble with it.
Bible in Basic English
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.
Darby Translation
Better is little with the fear of Jehovah than great store and disquietude therewith.
Julia Smith Translation
Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion with it
King James 2000
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with trouble.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Better [is] little with the fear of Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it.
Modern King James verseion
Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah than great treasure and tumult with it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Better is a little, with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure; for they are not without sorrow.
NET Bible
Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it.
New Heart English Bible
Better is little, with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure with trouble.
The Emphasized Bible
Better is a little, with the reverence of Yahweh, than great treasure, and disquietude therewith.
Webster
Better is little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.
World English Bible
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
Youngs Literal Translation
Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.
Themes
Contentment » Contentment, the duty of
Godly Fear » Described as » A treasure to saints
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 15:16
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Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast. 16 Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it. 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
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Cross References
Psalm 37:16
Better is a little that the righteous man has than the abundance of many wicked men.
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
1 Timothy 6:6
But piety with contentment is great gain,
Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.