“Better is he who is little known, and has a servant, than he who honors himself and lacks bread.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 12 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.