What the righteous say ¹  is like ²  the best ³  silver, but what the wicked think ⁴  is of little value. ⁵ 

Better ¹  is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil ²  with it. ³ 

Better to have a little with righteousness ¹  than to have abundant income without justice. ² 

But take a few strands of hair ¹  from those and tie them in the ends of your garment. ² 

When they stumble, they will be granted some help. But many will unite with them deceitfully.

Let a little water be brought so that ¹  you may all ²  wash your feet and rest under the tree.

Abraham’s servant ¹  ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with ¹  this people? – a little more ²  and they will stone me!” ³ 

To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, ¹  and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. ²  To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. ³ 

“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

Now the city was spread out ¹  and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. ²  At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, ¹  they are brought low ²  like all others, and gathered in, ³  and like a head of grain they are cut off.’ ⁴ 

One dead fly ¹  makes the perfumer’s ointment give off a rancid stench, ²  so a little folly can outweigh ³  much wisdom. ⁴ 

If the Lord who commands armies ¹  had not left us a few survivors, we would have quickly become like Sodom, ²  we would have become like Gomorrah.

For very soon my fury ¹  will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction.”

In just a very short time ¹  Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest. ² 

Have you not copied their behavior ¹  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ²  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

After ¹  entering into an alliance with him, he will behave treacherously; he will ascend to power with only a small force. ² 

Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, ¹  I will soon gather them together for judgment. ²  Then ³  they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king. ⁴ 

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man – a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.