Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
Proverbs 17:1
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.Or sacrifices
- KJV
- Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.sacrifices: or, good cheer
- WEB
- Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
- ASV
- Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
- LSV
- Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, || Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
- YLT
- Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
- DBY
- Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.
- DRC
- Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.
- GNV
- Better is a dry morsell, if peace be with it, then an house full of sacrifices with strife.
- JPS
- Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.
- LXXE
- Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- ט֤וֹב פַּ֣ת חֲ֭רֵבָה וְשַׁלְוָה־בָ֑הּ מִ֝בַּ֗יִת מָלֵ֥א זִבְחֵי־רִֽיב׃
- LXX-Br
- Κρείσσων ψωμὸς μεθʼ ἡδονῆς ἐν εἰρήνῃ, ἢ οἶκος πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ ἀδίκων θυμάτων μετὰ μάχης.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 15:17Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
- Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
- Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- Proverbs 21:9Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Proverbs 7:14“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).