Proverbs 15:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ”

• Proverbs 15:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The “stalled ox,” like the “fatted calf” of Luke 15:23 , would indicate a stately magnificence.

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One ( Proverbs 15:11 ) is noteworthy as showing an extended con...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs - Great numbers of indigent Hindoos subsist wholly on herbs, fried in oil, and mixed w...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Better is a dinner of herbs— They eat very little meat in the east in comparison with what we do: bread, dibbs, leban, butter, rice, and a very little mutton, make the chief of their food in the...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Better (is) a dinner (Hebrew, 'ªruchat ( H737 ) - a traveler's dinner; food for a journey) of herbs wh...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Grievous ] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A m...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Kind Words and Glad Hearts Proverbs 15:1-17 A soft answer; the tongue of the wise; a wholesome tongue; the lips of the wise; the prayer of the upright -these keywords touch one of the greate...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 15:11 . This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual fea...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Better [is] a dinner of herbs, where love is ,.... What Plautus i calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a harsh and earthly supper", made of what grows out of the earth; which is got without much c...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Ver. 17. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is. ] Mensa consecrata est amicitiae, saith one. The table is...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Better is a little with the fear of the Lord Which gives a man tranquillity and comfort in what he hath; than great treasure and trouble therewith Tumultuous lusts and passions, vexatious cares a...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        16 Better is little with the fear of the L ORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.   17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.      ...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Love; true friendship and kindness between those that eat together.

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Man Of Understanding Overcomes Adverse Circumstances And Enjoys A Life Of Pleasantness Whilst The Fool Continually Experiences Trouble ( Proverbs 15:14-21 ). This subsection is in an inclusio...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 15:17 . Dinner of herbs , literally “a traveller’s meal.” Proverbs 15:18 . Stirreth up , lit. “mixes,” implying the reciprocal idea of giving and taking offence (Faus...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 15:1 . A soft answer turneth away wrath. It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, sa...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath . Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 17. Better is a dinner of herbs, a portion of the very simplest food, where love is, where a person is in the midst of his loved ones, than a stalled ox, one fattened by hand-feeding, and h...

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• Proverbs 15:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 4:16 ; Philippians 2:1 ; Proverbs 17:1 ; Proverbs 21:19 ; Psalms 133:1-3

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