Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
BSB
ASV
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
KJV
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Sacrifices - The feast accompanied the offerings Pro 7:14. Part of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices” was therefore one abounding in sumptuous feasts.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 21:9Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
leads to
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
Through
Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
leads to
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Through
Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.
leads to
Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
