Proverbs 17:1
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Behaviour Better Bit Bread Crust Dry Feasting Full House Morsel Peace Quiet Quietness Rest Sacrifices Strife Therewith Violent
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Behaviour Better Bit Bread Crust Dry Feasting Full House Morsel Peace Quiet Quietness Rest Sacrifices Strife Therewith Violent
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English Standard Version
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

New American Standard Bible
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.

King James Bible
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Better a dry crust with peace than a house full of feasting with strife.

International Standard Version
Dry crumbs in peace are better than a full meal with strife.

NET Bible
Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Dry bread in quietness is better than a house full of the sacrifices of judgment.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Better a bite of dry bread [eaten] in peace than a family feast filled with strife.

King James 2000 Bible
Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

American King James Version
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Darby Bible Translation
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.

English Revised Version
Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than an house full of feasting with strife.

Webster's Bible Translation
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
Lexicon
Better
towb  (tobe)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun
is a dry
chareb  (khaw-rabe')
parched or ruined -- desolate, dry, waste.
morsel
path  (path)
a bit -- meat, morsel, piece.
and quietness
shalvah  (shal-vaw')
security (genuine or false) -- abundance, peace(-ably), prosperity, quietness.
therewith than an house
bayith  (bah'-yith)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
full
male'  (maw-lay')
full or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully -- she that was with child, fill(-ed, -ed with), full(-ly), multitude, as is worth.
of sacrifices
zebach  (zeh'-bakh)
a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act) -- offer(-ing), sacrifice.
with strife
riyb  (reeb)
a contest (personal or legal) -- adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
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