Proverbs 16:8
What meaning of the proverbs 16:8 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 16:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right."
What does Proverbs 16:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right."
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart;...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
BETTER. See note on Proverbs 8:11....
_without right_ Rather, WITH INJUSTICE, R.V., as preserving better the parallelism. Comp. Proverbs 15:16....
CHAPTER 16 TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11 1. The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. 2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth t...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. BETTER IS A LITTLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAN GREAT REVENUES WITHOUT RIGHT - (.) "Better:" for the tranquility of conscience,...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
טֹוב ־מְ֭עַט בִּ צְדָקָ֑ה מֵ רֹ֥ב תְּ֝בוּאֹ֗ות בְּ לֹ֣א מִשְׁפָּֽט׃...
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
BETTER [IS] A LITTLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Gotten in a righteous way, held by a righteous claim, used in a righteous manner, attended with a life of righteousness and holiness; and also along with a...
Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. Ver. 8. _Better is a little with righteousness, &c._] A small stock well gotten is more comfortably enjoyed and bequeathed t...
_Better is a little_, &c. A small estate, honestly gotten and usefully employed, is much to be preferred before vast incomes, gathered by oppression, and kept without the exercise of mercy and charity...
V. 8. BETTER IS A LITTLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS, small possessions gained and kept with a good conscience, THAN GREAT REVENUES, a large income and great wealth, WITHOUT RIGHT, having been gained by oppres...
This was in effect said before, PROVERBS 15:16, and is here repeated, partly because of the great importance and usefulness of this truth, and partly because men are very hardly brought to a serious b...
Proverbs 16:8 Better H2896 little H4592 righteousness H6666 vast H7230 revenues H8393 justice H4941 is - Proverbs 15:16; Psalms 37:16; 1 Timothy 6:6-9 great - Proverbs 21:6-7; Jeremiah 17:11;...
YHWH IS CONCERNED ABOUT INJUSTICE WHETHER AT THE HANDS OF THE KING OR OF MEN (PROVERBS 16:8). In this subsection men are urged to act justly and rightly in their business dealings, and kings are urge...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:1 The comparison between the PLANS of a man’s HEART (vv. Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9) and the sovereign direction of THE LORD (vv. Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9) unifies t...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 16:7_ PLEASING GOD I. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN MEN’S WAYS DO NOT PLEASE THE LORD. _The ways of the ungodly do not at any time please the Lord_. Because they have no sympathy...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
1 Timothy 6:6; Jeremiah 17:11; Micah 6:10; Proverbs 15:16; Proverbs 21:6; Proverbs 21:7; Psalms 37:16...