New Revised Standard Version
Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.

Contemporary English Version
It's better to obey the LORD and have only a little, than to be very rich and terribly anxious.

New American Bible
Better a little with fear of the LORD than a great fortune with anxiety.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without content.

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without content.

little

Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.

Proverbs 28:6 Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.

Psalm 37:16 Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the wicked.

1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

great

Proverbs 10:22 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

Ecclesiastes 2:10,11,18-23 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity. . . .