OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 17:1

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

1

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

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 1. Victims. Of which part was used for a feast. Calmet. 7:14. Calmet.—Septuagint add, “of many goods, and unjust victims.” Bible.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter