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Proverbs 15:17
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Better a meal of vegetables where there is lovethan a fattened ox with hatred.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a fattened calf with hatred.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Better is a portion of vegetables where there is love, Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
It is better to eat vegetables with those who love you than to eat meat with those who hate you.
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a fattened calf with hatred.
Better is a dinner of greene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.
Better is a dish of vegetables where there is loveThan a fattened ox and hatred in it.
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
A simple meal with love is better than a feast where there is hatred.
Better a vegetable dinner with love than a stall-fattened ox with hate.
Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.
It is better to eat a little where there is love than to eat a lot where there is hate.
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than fatted steer and hatred with it.
Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate.
Better is a dinner of vegetables when love is there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.
Better is a meace of potage with loue, then a fat oxe wt euell will.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better is a dinner of herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe, and hatred therewith.
Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with euyll wyll.
Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, than a feast of calves, with enmity.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
It is betere to be clepid to wortis with charite, than with hatrede to a calf maad fat.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where there is love, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
Better is a dinner of herbs [fn] where love is,Than a fatted calf with hatred.
A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.
A dish of vegetables with love is better than eating the best meat with hate.
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Better is an allowance of herbs, and love, there, than a fatted ox, and hatred therewith.
It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
Better a bread crust shared in love than a slab of prime rib served in hate.
Better is a dish of vegetables where love is Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 17:1, Proverbs 21:19, Psalms 133:1-3, Philippians 2:1, 1 John 4:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 16:6 - Abram 1 Samuel 20:24 - the king Psalms 37:16 - General Proverbs 21:9 - brawling woman in a wide house Ecclesiastes 4:6 - General Jeremiah 46:21 - fatted bullocks Romans 14:2 - eateth Philippians 2:14 - disputings
Cross-References
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
And David built there an altar unto the Lord , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord ; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Better [is] a dinner of herbs, where love is,.... What Plautus i calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a harsh and earthly supper", made of what grows out of the earth; which is got without much cost or care, and dressed with little trouble; a traveller's dinner, as the word k signifies, and a poor one too to travel upon, such as is easily obtained, and presently cooked, and comes cheap. Now, where there are love and good nature in the host that prepares this dinner; or in a family that partakes of such an one, having no better; or among guests invited, who eat friendly together; or in the person that invites them, who receives them cheerfully, and heartily bids them welcome: such a dinner, with such circumstances, is better
than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith; than an ox kept up in the stall for fattening; or than a fatted one, which with the ancients was the principal in a grand entertainment; hence the allusion in Matthew 22:4. In the times of Homer, an ox was in high esteem at their festivals; at the feasts made by his heroes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Ajax, an ox was a principal part of them, if not the whole; the back of a fat ox, or a sirloin of beef, was a favourite dish l. Indeed in some ages, both among Greeks and Romans, an ox was abstained from, through a superstitious regard to it, because so useful a creature in ploughing of the land; and it was carried so far as to suppose it to be as sinful to slay an ox as to kill a man m: and Aratus n represents it as not done, neither in the golden nor silver age, but that in the brasen age men first began to kill and eat oxen; but this is to be confuted by the laws of God, Genesis 9:3; and by the examples of Abraham and others. Now if there is hatred, either in the host, or in the guests among themselves, or in a family, it must stir up strifes and contentions, and render all enjoyments unpleasant and uncomfortable; see Proverbs 17:1; but where the love of God is, which is better than life, and the richest enjoyments of it; which sweetens every mercy, and cannot be purchased with money; and secures the best of blessings, the riches of grace and glory, and itself can never be lost; where this is, the meanest diet is preferable to the richest and most costly banquets of wicked men; who are hated and abhorred by the Lord, for their oppression and injustice, their luxury, or their covetousness; for poor men may be loved of God, and the rich be abhorred by him, Psalms 10:4.
i Capteivei, Act. 1. Sc. 2. v. 80. . 3. Sc. 1. v. 37. k ארחת "viaticum", Montanus, Amama "commeatus", Cocceius. l Iliad. 7. v. 320, 321. Odyss. 4. v. 65. & 8. v. 60. Vid. Suidam in voce ομηρος. Virgil. Aeneid. 8. v. 182. m Aelian. l. 5. c. 14. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 45. n Phoenomena, v. 132.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 15:17. Better is a dinner of herbs — Great numbers of indigent Hindoos subsist wholly on herbs, fried in oil, and mixed with their rice.
