Proverbs 15:17
Better is an allowance of herbs when love is there, than a stall-fed ox and hatred therewith.
Leeser Tanakh
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 little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and confusion therewith.
18A man of fury stirreth up strife; but he that is slow to anger assuageth contention.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:8Better is a little with righteousness, than great incomes through injustice.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a quarrelsome and vexatious 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 →