Proverbs 15:16
Being poor and revering Yahweh is better than being rich and having a lot of troubles.
Translation for Translators
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 10:22Yahweh blesses some people by enabling them to become rich, and working hard will not make them to become richer (OR, and he will not also cause them to become sad).
Proverbs 17:1It is better to eat a dry piece of bread and not have strife/quarrels than to have a big feast in a house where everyone is quarreling.
Ecclesiastes 2:10I got everything [LIT] that I [SYN] saw and wanted. I did everything [LIT] that I thought would enable me to be happy. All those things that I [SYN] enjoyed were like a reward for all my hard work.
Ecclesiastes 4:6So I say, “It is better to be content with not having much money, than to work very hard and try to get a lot of money, which is as useless as chasing the wind.”
1 Timothy 6:6Well, we truly do gain great benefit when we conduct our lives ◄in a godly manner/in a manner that pleases God► and we are content with what we have.
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 →