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Proverbs 17:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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