Proverbs 15:16
Better [is] a little with the fear of YHWH, || Than much treasure, and tumult with it.
Literal Standard 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, || And gladness of heart [is] a perpetual banquet.
17Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there, || Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of YHWH—it makes rich, || And He adds no grief with it.
Proverbs 17:1Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, || Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that my eyes asked I did not keep back from them; I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this has been my portion, from all my labor,
Ecclesiastes 4:6“Better [is] a handful [with] quietness, than two handfuls [with] labor and distress of spirit.”
1 Timothy 6:6but it is great gain—the piety with contentment;
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 →