Proverbs 16:8
Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
In Context
7When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.
9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Cross References
Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
Proverbs 15:17Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Proverbs 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
1 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness 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 →