Proverbs 15:16
Better is little, with the fear of Jehovah, Than great treasure and trouble therewith.
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Cross references
- Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
- Psalm 37:16 Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many wicked.
- Ecclesiastes 5:10–12 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes? The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.