Proverbs 15:16
Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
In Context
15All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast.
17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:6Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.
1 Timothy 6:6But piety with contentment is great gain,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:16
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. See here what a great difference there is between the condition and temper of some and others of the children of men. 1. Some are much in affliction, and of a sorrowful spirit, and all their days are evil days, like those of old age, and days of which they say they have no pleasure in them. They eat in darkness ( Eccl. v. 17 ) and never eat with pleasure, Job xxi. 25 . How many are the afflictions of the afflicted in… Read the whole commentary →