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Proverbs 17:1
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Better a dry crust with peace
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.
It is better to eat a dry crust of bread in peace than to have a feast where there is quarreling.
Better is a dry morsel [of food served] with quietness and peace Than a house full of feasting [served] with strife and contention.
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better is a dry morsell, if peace be with it, then an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Better is a dry morsel and tranquility with itThan a house full of feasting with strife.
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
A dry crust of bread eaten in peace and quiet is better than a feast eaten where everyone argues.
Better a dry piece of bread with calm than a house full of food but also full of strife.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.
It is better to have nothing but a dry piece of bread to eat in peace than a whole house full of food with everyone arguing.
BETTER is dry bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than have a banquet in a house full of trouble.
Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled with feasts of strife.
Better is a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with fighting.
Better is a drye morsell wt quyetnesse, the a full house and many fatt catell wt stryfe.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better is a drie morsell, and quietnesse therewith; then an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Better is a drye morsell with quietnesse, then a house full of fat offeryng with strife.
Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.
Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than an house full of feasting with strife.
Betere is a drie mussel with ioye, than an hous ful of sacrifices with chidyng.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices [with] strife.
Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better is a dry morsel with quietness,Than a house full of feasting [fn] with strife.
Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting—and conflict.
A dry piece of food with peace and quiet is better than a house full of food with fighting.
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better a dry morsel, and peace therewith, than a house full of contentious sacrifices.
Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
A meal of bread and water in contented peace is better than a banquet spiced with quarrels.
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a dry: Proverbs 15:17, Psalms 37:16
an house: Proverbs 7:14
sacrifices: or, good cheer
with: Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:24 - the king Ecclesiastes 4:6 - General 1 Thessalonians 4:11 - that 2 Thessalonians 3:12 - that with James 5:5 - as in
Cross-References
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him.
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith,.... A small quantity of bread; a broken piece of bread, as the word w signifies; which has been long broken off, and become "dry" x; a dry crust of bread; old bread, as the Arabic version; an old, mouldy, dry piece of bread: and the word used has the signification of destruction in it: bread that has lost its taste and virtue; or, however, a mere piece of bread is meant, without anything to eat with it, as Gersom, butter, cheese, or flesh: this, with quietness and peace among those that partake of it, peace in the family, in a man's own mind, especially if he has the peace of God, which passeth all understanding; this is better
than a house full of sacrifices [with] strife; than a house ever so well furnished with good cheer, or a table ever so richly spread; or where there is plenty of slain beasts for food, or for sacrifice, which were usually the best, and part of which the people had to eat, and at which times feasts used to be made; but the meanest food, with tranquillity and contentment, is preferable to the richest entertainment where there is nothing but strife and contention among the guests; for, where that is, there is confusion and every evil work: peace and joy in the Holy Ghost are better than meats and drinks. Mr. Dod used to say,
"brown bread and the Gospel are good fare;''
see Proverbs 15:17.
w פת "frustrum", a פתת, "fregit", Gejerus. x חרבה "siccum frustum panis", Tigurine version; "cibi sicci" Junius Tremellius "brucella sicca", V. L. Mercerus, Piscator; "buccea sicca", Cocceuis; "frustum sicci, sc. cibi", Michaelis, "frustum siccae buccellae, Schultens, so Ben Melech.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Sacrifices - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14. Part of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices” was therefore one abounding in sumptuous feasts.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XVII
Contentment. The wise servant. The Lord tries the heart.
Children a crown to their parents. We should hide our
neighbour's faults. The poor should not be despised.
Litigations and quarrels to be avoided. Wealth is useless to
a fool. The good friend. A fool may pass for a wise man when
he holds his peace.
NOTES ON CHAP. XVII
Verse Proverbs 17:1. Better is a dry morsel — Peace and contentment, and especially domestic peace, are beyond all other blessings.
A house full of sacrifices — A Hindoo priest, who officiates at a festival, sometimes receives so many offerings that his house is filled with them, so that many of them are damaged before they can be used.-Ward.
