Proverbs 15:16
Better is a little with the dread of the Lord, than many treasures and unfillable. (Better is a little with the fear of the Lord or with reverence for the Lord, than many treasures and troubles.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 blessing of the Lord maketh rich men (or The blessing of the Lord maketh people rich); and torment shall not be fellowshipped to them.
Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than an house full of sacrifices with chiding, ( or with arguments).
Ecclesiastes 2:10and all things which mine eyes desired, I denied not to them; neither I refrained mine heart, that not it used all lust, and delighted itself in these things which I had made ready; and I deemed this my part, if I used my travail. (and anything which my eyes desired, I did not deny them; nor did I refrain my heart from anything it desired, and it delighted itself in those things which I had prepared for it; and I judged this my portion, for all my labour.)
Ecclesiastes 4:6and saith, Better is an handful, with rest, than ever either hand full, with travail and torment of soul.
1 Timothy 6:6But a great winning is piety, with sufficience. (But piety, in and of itself, is a great gain or a great reward, yea, with abundance.)
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 →