Proverbs 15:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 15:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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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. Holiness…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. trouble--agitation, implying the anxieties and perplexities attending wealth held by worldlings (Pr 16:18; 1Ti 6:6).