16Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
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Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. …
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-17)Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit, has a continual feast ; Christian contentment, and joy in God, make the life easy and pleasant; now here he tells us what is necessary to that cheerfulness of spirit which will furnish a man with a continual feast , though he has but little in the world—holiness and love. I. Holine…
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