Proverbs 17:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BETTER IS a dry morsel with quietness than a house full of feasting [on offered sacrifices] with strife.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

Common English Bible

¹ Better a dry crust with quiet than a house full of feasting with quarrels.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ A dry morsel with gladness is better than a house full of sacrifices along with conflict.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Proverbs 17:1 Cross References

Psalm 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous person has than the abundance of many wicked.

Proverbs 15:16

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice.

Proverbs 17:2

A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful wife.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious wife.

Proverbs 7:14

“I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;