Proverbs 16:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.

New Living Translation
Better to have little, with godliness, than to be rich and dishonest.

English Standard Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Berean Study Bible
Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.

New American Standard Bible
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.

NASB 1995
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.

NASB 1977
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.

Amplified Bible
Better is a little with righteousness Than great income [gained] with injustice.

Christian Standard Bible
Better a little with righteousness than great income with injustice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Better a little with righteousness than great income with injustice.

Contemporary English Version
It's better to be honest and poor than to be dishonest and rich.

Good News Translation
It is better to have a little, honestly earned, than to have a large income, dishonestly gained.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Better a few [possessions] gained honestly than many gained through injustice.

International Standard Version
A little gain with righteousness is better than great income without justice.

NET Bible
Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

New King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness, Than vast revenues without justice.

King James 2000 Bible
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without justice.

New Heart English Bible
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

World English Bible
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

American King James Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

American Standard Version
Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.

A Faithful Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Darby Bible Translation
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.

English Revised Version
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Webster's Bible Translation
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Better is a litle with righteousnesse, then great reuenues without equitie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Better it is to haue a litle with ryghteousnesse, then great rentes wrongfully gotten.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Better is it to haue a litle thinge wt rightuousnes, the greate rentes wrongeously gotten.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Better [is] a little with righteousness, "" Than abundance of increase without justice.

Young's Literal Translation
Better is a little with righteousness, Than abundance of increase without justice.

Smith's Literal Translation
Good a little with justice above abundance of increase with no judgment.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Better is a little with justice, than many fruits with iniquity.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Better is a little in righteousness than a multitude of gain which is not by justice.

Lamsa Bible
Better is a little with righteousness than great ingathering acquired unjustly.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Better is a little with righteousness Than great revenues with injustice.He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace.
















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