Proverbs 15:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate.

¹⁸Hot tempers cause arguments, but patience brings peace.

¹⁹If you are lazy, you will meet difficulty everywhere, but if you are honest, you will have no trouble.

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Proverbs 15:17-19

New International Version

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

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

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

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Proverbs 15:17-19

New King James Version

¹⁷^(A)Better is a dinner of ^[a]herbs where love is,
Than a fatted calf with hatred.

¹⁸^(B)A wrathful man stirs up strife,
But he who is slow to anger allays contention.

¹⁹^(C)The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns,
But the way of the upright is a highway.

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Footnotes

Proverbs 15:17 Or vegetables

Proverbs 15:17-19

English Standard Version

¹⁷^(A)Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
    than ^(B)a fattened ox and hatred with it.
¹⁸^(C)A hot-tempered man ^(D)stirs up strife,
    but he who is ^(E)slow to anger quiets contention.
¹⁹The way of ^(F)a sluggard is like a hedge of ^(G)thorns,
    but the path of the upright is ^(H)a level highway.