Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
2 A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
3 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
- KJV
- Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
- 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.
- DARBY
- Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.
- BLB
- Better [is] a dry morsel and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.
- ÅB
- Bedre et stykke tørt brød med ro og fred enn et hus fullt av slakt med trette.
- OTB
- Bedre er en tørr skorpe med fred enn et hus fullt av festing med konflikt.
- B1930
- Bedre et stykke tørt brød med ro og fred enn et hus fullt av slakt med trette.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Read in contextPsalms 37:16
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
Read in contextProverbs 21:19
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Read in contextProverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Read in context