Proverbs 15:17
It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without content.
18A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:8Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
Matthew 22:4Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.
Philippians 2:1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:
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 →