Proverbs 15:17
Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there, || Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
Literal Standard Version
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 YHWH, || Than much treasure, and tumult with it.
18A man of fury stirs up contention, || And the slow to anger appeases strife.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:8Better [is] a little with righteousness, || Than abundance of increase without justice.
Proverbs 21:19Better to dwell in a wilderness land, || Than [with] a woman of contentions and anger.
Matthew 22:4Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Behold, I prepared my early meal, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things [are] ready, come to the wedding feasts;
Philippians 2:1If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any yearnings and mercies,
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 →