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17 Better is a dinner of vegetables when[a] love is there
    than a fattened ox and hatred with it.[b]
18 A man who is hot-tempered will stir up strife,
    but he who is slow to anger,[c] he will calm contention.
19 The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns,[d]
    but the path of the upright is a highway.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:17 Hebrew “and”
  2. Proverbs 15:17 Or “him”
  3. Proverbs 15:18 Literally “nostrils”
  4. Proverbs 15:19 Hebrew “thorn”