Psalms 37:16 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 37:16

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many wicked.

WEB

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.

YLT

Better is the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

DBT

The little that the righteous hath is better than the abundance of many wicked;

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

22 verses on the floor

Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Proverbs 15:16
Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Luke 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

, 18, 19, 22-25, 28, 29, 37 . He prescribes very good remedies against this sin of envying the prosperity of the wicked, and great encouragement to use those remedies,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When evil-doers are cut off the righteous sometimes inherit what they gathered. The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just, Job xxvii. This promise is here made, 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 37:161TI 6:6 HEB 13:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 37:161TI 6:6 PRO 16:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 37:161TI 6:6 1TI 6:8
PSA 37:161TI 6:6 PHP 4:11-13
PSA 37:161TI 6:6 LUK 12:31-32
PSA 37:16PRO 16:8 PRO 15:16
PSA 37:16ECC 4:6 PRO 15:16-17
PSA 37:16PRO 16:8 1TI 6:6-9

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