Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with rightfulness, than many fruits with wickedness.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
In Context
7When the ways of (a) man please the Lord, he shall convert, yea, his enemies to peace.
Cross References
Psalms 37:16Better is a little thing to a just man; than many riches of sinners. (Better is the little that the righteous have; than the many riches of the sinners.)
Proverbs 15:17It is better to be called to worts with charity, than with hatred to a calf made fat. (It is better to be warmly, or cordially, called to herbs, or vegetables, than to be hatefully invited to share a fattened calf.)
Proverbs 21:6He that gathereth treasures by the tongue of a lie maker, ( or of a liar), is vain, and without heart; and he shall be hurled to the snares of death.
Jeremiah 17:11(As) A partridge nourished those things which she breeded not; (so) he made riches, and not in doom, (or Like a partridge nourished those young which she did not bring forth, so he made riches, but not justly); in the midst of his days he shall forsake them, and in his last time he shall be unwise.
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 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 →