Proverbs 15:16
Better is a litle with the feare of the Lorde: then great treasure, and trouble therwith.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
In Context
15All the dayes of the poore are miserable: but a quiet heart is a continuall feast.
17Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with euyll wyll.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:22The blessyng of the Lorde maketh riche: and bryngeth no sorowe of heart with it.
Proverbs 17:1Better is a drye morsell with quietnesse, then a house full of fat offeryng with strife.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And loke whatsoeuer myne eyes desired, I let them haue it: and wherin soeuer my heart delited or had any pleasure, I withhelde it not from it: Thus my heart reioyced in all that I did, and this was my portion of all my trauayle.
Ecclesiastes 4:6One handfull [saith he] is better with rest, then both the handes full with labour and trauayle of mynde.
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 →