The Reply of the Tongue Is from the LORD
Proverbs 16:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
- KJV
- Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
- WEB
- Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
- ASV
- Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
- LSV
- Better [is] a little with righteousness, || Than abundance of increase without justice.
- YLT
- Better [is] a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.
- DBY
- Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
- DRC
- Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.
- GNV
- Better is a litle with righteousnesse, then great reuenues without equitie.
- JPS
- Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
- LXXE
- He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- טוֹב־מְ֭עַט בִּצְדָקָ֑ה מֵרֹ֥ב תְּ֝בוּא֗וֹת בְּלֹ֣א מִשְׁפָּֽט׃
- LXX-Br
- ὁ ζητῶν τὸν Κύριον εὑρήσει γνῶσιν μετὰ δικαιοσύνης, οἱ δὲ ὀρθῶς ζητοῦντες αὐτὸν εὑρήσουσιν εἰρήνην.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 15:16Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
- Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
- 1 Timothy 6:6–9Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. Those who want to be…
- Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Proverbs 21:6–7Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit. The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
- Micah 6:10Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
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