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Proverbs 15:16
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Proverbs 15:16
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16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.
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Proverbs 15:16
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Proverbs 15:16
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16 Better a little with the fear of the Lord
than great wealth with turmoil.(A)
Proverbs 16:8
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Proverbs 16:8
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8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
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Proverbs 16:8
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Proverbs 16:8
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
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10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
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10 Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
11 As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
permits them no sleep.(A)
Psalm 37:16
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Psalm 37:16
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16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
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Psalm 37:16
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Psalm 37:16
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16 Better the little that the righteous have
than the wealth(A) of many wicked;
1 Timothy 6:6
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1 Timothy 6:6
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Proverbs 28:6
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Proverbs 28:6
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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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Proverbs 28:6
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Proverbs 28:6
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6 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
than the rich whose ways are perverse.(A)
Proverbs 10:22
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Proverbs 10:22
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22 The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
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Proverbs 10:22
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Proverbs 10:22
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
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18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
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18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(A) 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?(B) Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(C) 23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(D) even at night their minds do not rest.(E) This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
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Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
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10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
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Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
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10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;(A)
nothing was gained under the sun.(B)
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