17 Better is a dinner of green herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

18 (A)An angry man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to wrath, appeaseth strife.

19 The way of a slothful man is as an hedge of [a]thorns: but the way of the righteous is plain.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:19 That is, he ever findeth some let or stay, and dare not go forward.

17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.(A)

18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,(B)
    but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.(C)

19 The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns,(D)
    but the path of the upright is a highway.

Read full chapter