Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

Better is a little with righteousness
Than great income with injustice.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Better a little with righteousness
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.

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.

Interlinear

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

צדקה 
Ts@daqah 
Usage: 157

תּבוּאה 
T@buw'ah 
Usage: 42

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

7 When a man's ways please Jehovah, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. 8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right. 9 The heart of man deviseth his way, but Jehovah directeth his steps.



Cross References

Psalm 37:16

The little that the righteous hath is better than the abundance of many wicked;

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of Jehovah than great store and disquietude therewith.

Proverbs 21:6-7

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge sitteth on eggs it hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

Micah 6:10

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable?

1 Timothy 6:6-9

But piety with contentment is great gain.

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