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Green's Literal Translation
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness than great increase without right.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Better a little with righteousnessthan great income with injustice.
Better a little with righteousnessthan great income with injustice.
Hebrew Names Version
Better is a little with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
English Standard Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
New American Standard Bible
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.
New Century Version
It is better to be poor and right than to be wealthy and dishonest.
It is better to be poor and right than to be wealthy and dishonest.
Amplified Bible
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income [gained] with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income [gained] with injustice.
World English Bible
Better is a little with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Better is a litle with righteousnesse, then great reuenues without equitie.
Better is a litle with righteousnesse, then great reuenues without equitie.
Legacy Standard Bible
Better is a little with righteousnessThan great produce with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousnessThan great produce with injustice.
Berean Standard Bible
Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
Contemporary English Version
It's better to be honest and poor than to be dishonest and rich.
It's better to be honest and poor than to be dishonest and rich.
Complete Jewish Bible
Better a little with righteousness than a huge income with injustice.
Better a little with righteousness than a huge income with injustice.
Darby Translation
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
Easy-to-Read Version
It is better to be poor and do right than to be rich and do wrong.
It is better to be poor and do right than to be rich and do wrong.
George Lamsa Translation
Better is a little with righteousness than great ingathering acquired unjustly.
Better is a little with righteousness than great ingathering acquired unjustly.
Good News Translation
It is better to have a little, honestly earned, than to have a large income, dishonestly gained.
It is better to have a little, honestly earned, than to have a large income, dishonestly gained.
Lexham English Bible
Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.
Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Better is it to haue a litle thinge wt rightuousnes, the greate rentes wrongeously gotten.
Better is it to haue a litle thinge wt rightuousnes, the greate rentes wrongeously gotten.
American Standard Version
Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Bible in Basic English
Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
King James Version (1611)
Better is a little with righteousnesse, then great reuenewes without right.
Better is a little with righteousnesse, then great reuenewes without right.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Better it is to haue a litle with ryghteousnesse, then great rentes wrongfully gotten.
Better it is to haue a litle with ryghteousnesse, then great rentes wrongfully gotten.
English Revised Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Betere is a litil with riytfulnesse, than many fruytis with wickidnesse.
Betere is a litil with riytfulnesse, than many fruytis with wickidnesse.
Update Bible Version
Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Webster's Bible Translation
Better [is] a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
Better [is] a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.
New English Translation
Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
New King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness, Than vast revenues without justice.
Better is a little with righteousness, Than vast revenues without justice.
New Living Translation
Better to have little, with godliness, than to be rich and dishonest.
Better to have little, with godliness, than to be rich and dishonest.
New Life Bible
A little earned in a right way is better than much earned in a wrong way.
A little earned in a right way is better than much earned in a wrong way.
New Revised Standard
Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Better a little with righteousness, than large revenues, without justice.
Better a little with righteousness, than large revenues, without justice.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.
Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.
Revised Standard Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Young's Literal Translation
Better [is] a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.
Better [is] a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.
THE MESSAGE
Far better to be right and poor than to be wrong and rich.
Far better to be right and poor than to be wrong and rich.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.
Contextual Overview
8 Better is a little with righteousness than great increase without right.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
is: Proverbs 15:16, Psalms 37:16, 1 Timothy 6:6-9
great: Proverbs 21:6, Proverbs 21:7, Jeremiah 17:11, Micah 6:10
Reciprocal: Psalms 119:141 - small Proverbs 12:27 - but Proverbs 15:6 - in the revenues Proverbs 19:1 - Better Proverbs 28:6 - General Ecclesiastes 4:6 - General
Cross-References
Genesis 3:9
And Jehovah God called to the man and said to him, Where are you?
And Jehovah God called to the man and said to him, Where are you?
Genesis 4:10
And He said, What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother cries to Me from the ground.
And He said, What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother cries to Me from the ground.
Genesis 16:1
And Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear to him; and to her belonged a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.
And Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear to him; and to her belonged a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:4
And he went in to Hagar and she conceived; and she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes.
And he went in to Hagar and she conceived; and she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, My injury be upon you; I gave my slave-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I was despised in her eyes. Let Jehovah judge between me and you.
And Sarai said to Abram, My injury be upon you; I gave my slave-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I was despised in her eyes. Let Jehovah judge between me and you.
Genesis 16:8
And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave-girl, where did you come from? And where do you go? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress, Sarai.
And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave-girl, where did you come from? And where do you go? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress, Sarai.
1 Samuel 26:19
And now, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah has moved you against me, let Him accept an offering. And if the sons of men, they are cursed before Jehovah; for they have driven me out today from joiningmyself with the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
And now, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah has moved you against me, let Him accept an offering. And if the sons of men, they are cursed before Jehovah; for they have driven me out today from joiningmyself with the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for composure quiets great offenses.
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for composure quiets great offenses.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Better [is] a little with righteousness,.... Gotten in a righteous way, held by a righteous claim, used in a righteous manner, attended with a life of righteousness and holiness; and also along with an interest in the righteousness of Christ, which renders acceptable unto God, yields peace and comfort, and entitles to eternal glory and happiness. A truly righteous man may have but little of this world's goods; but his small pittance is better
than great revenues without right; obtained in an unjust way; detained from the right owner of them, and used in an unrighteous manner, in a course of sin and wickedness: or, "without judgment" e; how to make use of them aright, and without a righteousness that will justify them at the day of judgment; :-. A little the true church of Christ enjoys in the wilderness; having Christ and his grace, Christ and his righteousness, is better than all the revenues of the church of Rome gotten by the unlawful methods they are; and which, in one hour will come to nought, Revelation 18:17.
e בלא משפט "absque judicio", Pagninus, Montanus.
