THEOSISProverbs 16:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.
טוֹב־מְ֭עַט בִּצְדָקָ֑ה מֵרֹ֥ב תְּ֝בוּא֗וֹת בְּלֹ֣א מִשְׁפָּֽט׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 37 (36):16
- Prov 15:16Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without content.
- 1 Tim 6:6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
- 1 Tim 6:9For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.
- Jer 17:11As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.
- Mic 6:10As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.
- Prov 21:6He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.
- Prov 21:7The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.