Proverbs 15:17
Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, than a feast of calves, with enmity.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
In Context
18a A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:8He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.
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 →