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Proverbs 15:17
17It is better to eat vegetables with people who love each other than to eat good meat with people who hate each other.
Proverbs 15:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
- New International Version (NIV)Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred.
Context of Proverbs 15:17
15Every day is difficult, if you have trouble in your mind. But if you are happy, every day is like a feast. 16You may be poor, but you respect and obey the Lord. That is better than if you are very rich, but you have a lot of trouble. It is better to eat vegetables with people who love each other than to eat good meat with people who hate each other. 18Angry people bring quarrels, but patient people bring peace. 19A lazy person always has problems, as if he is walking through thorn bushes. But an honest person walks on a straight road through life.
Read all of Proverbs 15Proverbs 15:17 word by word
ט֤וֹב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁ֑ם מִשּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 15:17
- Proverbs 17:1It is better to eat a piece of dry bread in a quiet place, than to eat a big feast in a house full of arguments.
- Proverbs 21:19It is better to live alone in a desert than to live with a wife who quarrels and complains.
- Psalms 133:1It is good for a family of God's people to live together in peace. Yes! It brings great pleasure!
- Philippians 2:1You belong to Christ, and he makes you brave. His love makes you strong. You are able to help one another because his Spirit is in you. You can be kind to each other, and you can forgive each other.
- 1 John 4:16So we know the kind of love that God has for us. We believe that God has put that love in us. God's nature is love. So, if someone continues to love other people, he is living together with God. And God lives in him.
Commentaries on Proverbs 15:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Better is a dinner of herbs - Great numbers of indigent Hindoos subsist wholly on herbs, fried in oil, and mixed with their rice.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The “stalled ox,” like the “fatted calf” of Luke 15:23, would indicate a stately magnificence.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-17Verses 16-17 Believers often have enough when worldly eyes see little; the Lord is with them, without the cares, troubles, and temptations which are with the wealth of the wicked.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17This proverb highlights the value of love over wealth. A big meal, like steak, is nice, but love is more important.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. dinner--or, "allowance" (2Ki 25:30)-- of herbs--and that the plainest. and hatred--(compare Pr 10:12, 18).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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