Proverbs 17:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

PROVERBS CHAPTER 17 Of sacrifices; of the remainders of sacrifices, of which they used to make feasts; of which See Poole on "Proverbs 7:14". Or, of slain beasts, as that word is used, Genesis 31:54, and elsewhere.

Proverbs 17:1

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