16 [a]A small thing unto the just man is better than great riches to the wicked and mighty.

17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the just men.

18 The Lord [b]knoweth the days of upright men, and their inheritance shall be perpetual.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:16 For they are daily fed as with Manna from heaven, and have sufficient, when the wicked have never enough, but ever hunger.
  2. Psalm 37:18 God knoweth what dangers hang over his, and by what means to deliver them.

16 Better the little that the righteous have
    than the wealth(A) of many wicked;
17 for the power of the wicked will be broken,(B)
    but the Lord upholds(C) the righteous.

18 The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care,(D)
    and their inheritance will endure forever.(E)

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