Proverbs 15:16 (BSB)

Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:16

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:16-17: Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit, has a continual feast; Christian contentment, and joy in God, make the life easy and pleasant; now here he tells us what is necessary to that cheerfulness of spirit which will furnish a man with a continual feast, though he has but...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:16: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:16: trouble--agitation, implying the anxieties and perplexities attending wealth held by worldlings (Pro 16:18; Ti1 6:6).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:16: Pro 15:16 16 Better is little with the fear of Jahve, Than great store and trouble therewith. The ב in both cases the lxx rightly renders by μετά. How מהוּמה (elsewhere of wild, confused disorder, extreme discord) is meant of store and treasure, Psa 39:7 shows: it is restless, covetous care and trouble, as the contrast of the quietness and contentment proceeding from the fear...