¹⁷ A bowl of vegetables with someone you love
    is better than steak with someone you hate.

17 Better a dry crust eaten in peace
    than a house filled with feasting—and conflict.

¹⁹ It’s better to live alone in the desert
    than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.

¹ How wonderful and pleasant it is
    when brothers live together in harmony!
² For harmony is as precious as the anointing oil
    that was poured over Aaron’s head,
    that ran down his beard
    and onto the border of his robe.
³ Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon
    that falls on the mountains of Zion.
And there the Lord has pronounced his blessing,
    even life everlasting.