Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Good a little with justice above abundance of increase with no judgment
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.
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.
Themes
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Greed/gluttony » Greedy gain with trouble
Topics
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 16:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
7 The ways of a man being accepted of Jehovah also he will make his enemies friends with him. 8 Good a little with justice above abundance of increase with no judgment 9 The heart of man will purpose his ways, and Jehovah will prepare his steps.
Phrases
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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 15:16
Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion with it
Proverbs 21:6-7
The making treasures by the tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered from those seeking death.
Jeremiah 17:11
The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed?
1 Timothy 6:6-9
But devotion with contentment is great gain.