Parallel Verses

Webster

Better is little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.

New American Standard Bible

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
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

Better a little with the fear of the Lord
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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
is little
מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

with the fear
יראה 
Yir'ah 
Usage: 45

of the Lord

Usage: 0

אוצר 
'owtsar 
Usage: 79

and trouble
מהוּמה 
M@huwmah 
Usage: 12

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. 16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it. 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.



Cross References

Psalm 37:16

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.

1 Timothy 6:6

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-12

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-23

Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.

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