Proverbs 15:16
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures and dissatisfaction.
Catholic Public Domain 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 poor are evil. A secure mind is like a continual feast.
17It is better to be called to vegetables with charity, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord causes riches. Affliction will not be a companion to them.
Proverbs 17:1A dry morsel with gladness is better than a house full of sacrifices along with conflict.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that my eyes desired, I did not refuse them. Neither did I prohibit my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and from amusing itself in the things that I had prepared. And I regarded this as my share, as if I were making use of my own labors.
Ecclesiastes 4:6“A handful with rest is better than both hands filled with labors and with affliction of the soul.”
1 Timothy 6:6But piety with sufficiency 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 →