Proverbs 15:16
Better is little with the Yirat Hashem 1 than otzar rav (great treasure) and trouble therewith. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 10:22The Birkat Hashem, it maketh wealthy, 1 and He addeth no sorrow with it. 1
Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry crust, and quietness therewith, 1 than a bais full of zevakhim (sacrificial religious meals) with strife. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my lev from any simchah; for my lev rejoiced in all my amal (labor); and this was my chelek (portion) for all my amal.
Ecclesiastes 4:6Better is a handful with tranquility than both the hands full with amal and chasing after ruach.
1 Timothy 6:6But chasidus with tzufriedenkait (contentment) is great revach (gain, profit).
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 →