Amsal 15:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lebih baik sedikit barang dengan disertai takut akan TUHAN dari pada banyak harta dengan disertai kecemasan.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lebih baik sedikit barang dengan disertai takut akan TUHAN dari pada banyak harta dengan disertai kecemasan.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Better is a litle with the feare of the Lorde: then great treasure, and trouble therwith. ¹⁷ Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with euyll wyll.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

little: Proverbs 16:8, Proverbs 28:6, Psalms 37:16, 1 Timothy 6:6

great: Proverbs 10:22, Ecclesiastes 2:10, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:18-23, Ecclesiastes 5:10-12

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:2 - General Psalms 119:141 - small Proverbs 12:27 - but Proverbs 15:6 - the house Proverbs 19:1 - Better Proverbs 23:17 - be thou Ecclesiastes 4:6 - General Isaiah 33:6 - fear Luke 12:15 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 15:5
And he brought hym out, and sayde: loke vp vnto heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And he sayde vnto hym: euen so shall thy seede be.

Genesis 15:8
And he sayde: Lorde God wherby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?

Genesis 15:9
He aunswered vnto hym: Take an Heyfer of three yere olde, & a she Goate of three yere olde, and a three yere olde Ramme, a turtle Doue also, & a young Pigeon.

Genesis 15:11
And when the foules fell on the carkases, Abram droue them away.

Exodus 12:40
The dwellyng of the chyldren of Israel which they dwelled in Egypt, was foure hundred and thirtie yeres.

1 Kings 21:26
He dyd exceeding abhominablie in folowing foule idols, according to all thinges as dyd the Ammorites whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel.

Daniel 8:23
And in the ende of their kingdome, when the wicked are come to the full, a king of a fierce countenaunce, and vnderstanding harde sentences, shall stand vp.

1 Thessalonians 2:16
And hynder vs to speake to the gentiles that they myght be saued, to fulfyll their sinnes alway. For the wrath [of God] is come on them to the vtmost.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Better [is] little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. Not that a "little" is better than "much" of that which is good, as the things of this world are in themselves; poverty is not better than riches, simply considered; but as these are attended with different circumstances: if a man has but little of worldly substance, yet if he has "the fear of God" in his heart, and before his eyes; that fear which has God for its author and for its object, and which is itself a treasure; and may be here put for all grace, for the riches of grace saints are partakers of; such a man's little is better than another man's abundance without the fear of the Lord, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it: for such a man, though he has but little, which is the common portion of good men, yet he does not lack; be has enough, and is content; what he has he has with a blessing, and he enjoys it, and God in it, and has communion with him; and has also other bread to eat, the world knows nothing of: and particularly having the fear of God, the eve of God is upon him with pleasure; his heart is towards him, and sympathizes with him in all his troubles; his hand communicates unto him both temporal and spiritual meat, which is given to them that fear the Lord; his angels encamp about him, his power protects him; his secrets are with him, and inconceivable and inexpressible goodness is laid up for him: wherefore he is better off with his little, having the fear of God, than another with his great abundance and affluence, being destitute of it: and besides, having a great deal of "trouble" along with his treasure; trouble in amassing and getting it together; trouble in keeping it from being lost, or taken away by thieves and, robbers, for fear of which he cannot sleep; trouble through an insatiable desire of having more; he has no rest nor peace because he has not so much as he would have, or others have. Besides, he has what he has with curse; God sends upon him cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all he sets his hand to, Deuteronomy 28:2; where the same word is used as here: and he has it also with the cry of the poor; so some render the word, "a noise" or "tumult" g; and interpret it of the cries and tears of those that are oppressed and injured; so Jarchi and Gersom; or, "with terror" h, as some render it; with the terrors of a guilty conscience, with the fear of hell and everlasting damnation. Better have a little with a good conscience, than ever so much attended with such circumstances; it is not any man's little, but the good man's little, that is preferable to the wicked man's much; see Psalms 37:16.

g מהומה "tumultus", Tigurine version, Montanus, Vatablus; "strepitus", Mercerus. h "Terror", Aben Ezra.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This proverb has its completion in the teaching of Matthew 6:33.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 15:16. Better is little with the fear of the Lord — Because where the fear of God is, there are moderation and contentment of spirit.