Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion 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.
A Conservative Version
Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.
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.
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
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: and the good of heart drinking always. 16 Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion with it 17 Good a ration of herbs and love there, above an ox of the stall and hatred with it.
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Cross References
Psalm 37:16
A little to the just one is good more than the wealth of many unjust.
Proverbs 16:8
Good a little with justice above abundance of increase with no judgment
1 Timothy 6:6
But devotion with contentment is great gain.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of Jehovah it will make rich, and it will not add pain with it
Proverbs 28:6
Good the poor one going in his integrity above him perverting the ways, and he the rich.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me.