“A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.”
The psalmist declares 'Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked.' The comparison establishes that quality supersedes quantity: the modest possessions of the righteous are of greater value than the wealth accumulated through wickedness. The verse suggests that righteousness provides true security despite material lack.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:16
On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…
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