8Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
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A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
But godliness with contentment is great gain. …
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8)Here, 1. It is supposed that an honest good man may have but a little of the wealth of this world (all the righteous are not rich),—that a man may have but little, and yet may be honest (though poverty is a temptation to dishonesty, Prov. 30:9; yet not an invincible one),—and that a man may grow rich, for a while, by fraud and oppression, may have great revenues , and those got and kept without ri…
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