Proverbs 16:8

WEB

⁸Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

KJV

⁸Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

BSB

⁸Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.

FBV

⁸Better to have just a little and be honest than to have a lot and be dishonest.

Extra References

Psalms 37:16

¹⁶Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

Proverbs 15:16

¹⁶Better is little, with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure with trouble.

⁶^[+] But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. ⁸But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. ⁹But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Jeremiah 17:11

¹¹As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Micah 6:10

¹⁰Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah^[+] that is accursed?

Proverbs 21:6-7

⁶Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death. ⁷The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.