Proverbs 15:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

New Living Translation
A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.

English Standard Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Berean Study Bible
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

New American Standard Bible
Better is a portion of vegetables where there is love, Than a fattened ox served with hatred.

NASB 1995
Better is a dish of vegetables where love is Than a fattened ox served with hatred.

NASB 1977
Better is a dish of vegetables where love is, Than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Amplified Bible
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present Than a fattened ox served with hatred.

Christian Standard Bible
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Contemporary English Version
A simple meal with love is better than a feast where there is hatred.

Good News Translation
Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Better to have a dish of vegetables where there is love than juicy steaks where there is hate.

International Standard Version
A vegetarian meal served with love is better than a big, thick steak with a plateful of animosity.

NET Bible
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

New King James Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred.

King James 2000 Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox with hatred.

New Heart English Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

World English Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

American King James Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

American Standard Version
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

A Faithful Version
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

Darby Bible Translation
Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.

English Revised Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Webster's Bible Translation
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Better is a dinner of greene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with euyll wyll.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Better is a meace of potage with loue, then a fat oxe wt euell will.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there, "" Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

Young's Literal Translation
Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

Smith's Literal Translation
Good a ration of herbs and love there, above an ox of the stall and hatred with it.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

Catholic Public Domain Version
It is better to be called to vegetables with charity, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Better is a meal of vegetables and the love of The Name, than Fattened oxen with hatred.

Lamsa Bible
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than fatted steer and hatred with it.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, than a feast of calves, with enmity.
















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