Proverbs 15:16

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What does Proverbs 15:16 mean?

Proverbs 15:16 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 15:16

• Proverbs 16:8

  Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

• Psalms 37:16

  A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches 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 is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

• 1 Timothy 6:6

  But godliness with contentment is great gain.

• Proverbs 28:6

  Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

• Proverbs 10:22

  The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

• Ecclesiastes 2:18-23

  Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. …

• Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

  And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

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Context

• Proverbs 15:15

  All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

• Proverbs 15:16

  Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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