Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with euyll wyll.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
In Context
16Better is a litle with the feare of the Lorde: then great treasure, and trouble therwith.
18An angry man stirreth vp strife: but he that is patient stylleth discorde.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:8Better it is to haue a litle with ryghteousnesse, then great rentes wrongfully gotten.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wyldernesse, then with a chydyng and an angrye woman.
Matthew 22:4Agayne, he sent foorth other seruauntes, saying: Tell them which are bidden, beholde, I haue prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fatlynges are kylled, and all thynges are redy: come vnto the mariage.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:17-18
16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit, has a continual feast; Christian contentment, and joy in God, make the life easy and pleasant; now here he tells us what is necessary to that cheerfulness of spirit which will furnish a man with a continual feast, though he… Read the whole commentary →