Proverbs 15:17
It is better to be called to worts with charity, than with hatred to a calf made fat. (It is better to be warmly, or cordially, called to herbs, or vegetables, than to be hatefully invited to share a fattened calf.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
In Context
18A wrathful man raiseth chidings; he that is patient, assuageth chidings that were raised.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:8Better is a little with rightfulness, than many fruits with wickedness.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman full of chiding, and wrathful.
Matthew 22:4Again he sent other servants, and said, Say to the men that be bidden to the feast, Lo! I have made ready my meat, (or Behold! I have prepared my food), my bulls and my volatiles, [or my fat beasts], be slain, and all things be ready; come ye to the weddings.
Philippians 2:1Therefore if any comfort is in Christ, if any solace of charity, (or And so if there is any comfort in the Messiah, if any consolation of love), if any fellowship of (the) Spirit, if any inwardness of mercy doing,
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 →