Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
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.
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.
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
Interlinear
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M@`at
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 16:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
7 When a person's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he even reconciles his enemies to himself. 8 Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice. 9 A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps.
Phrases
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Cross References
Psalm 37:16
The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men,
Proverbs 15:16
Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it.
Proverbs 21:6-7
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
Jeremiah 17:11
The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."
Micah 6:10
"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
1 Timothy 6:6-9
Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.