Proverbs 15:16 · KJV
“Better {is} little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.”
— Proverbs 15:16
All the days of the afflicted {are} evil: but he that is of a merry heart {hath} a continual feast.
Better {is} a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15 — Context
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
15All the days of the afflicted {are} evil: but he that is of a merry heart {hath} a continual feast.
16Better {is} little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
17Better {is} a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
18A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but {he that is} slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Cross References
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.
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. {taken: Heb. laboured}
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.