Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
In Context
7When a man's ways please LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
9A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.
Cross References
Psalms 37:16Better is a little that the righteous man has than the abundance of many wicked men.
Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:6But piety with contentment is great gain,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:8
7 When a man's ways please the Lord , he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Note, 1. God can turn foes into friends when he pleases. He that has all hearts in his hand has access to men's spirits and power over them, working insensibly, but irresistibly upon them, can make a man's enemies to be at peace with him, can change their minds, or force them into a feigned submission. He can slay all enemies, and bring those together that were at the greatest distance from each other. 2. He will do it for us… Read the whole commentary →