PRO 15:17 Parallel View

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ULT Better is a portion of vegetables and love there
 ⇔ than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

UST It is better for someone to have a small meal where people love each other,
⇔ than to have a large meal where people hate each other.

BSB  ⇔ Better a dish of vegetables where there is love
⇔ than a fattened ox with hatred.

OEB Better a dish of herbs, with love,
⇔ than a fatted ox, with hatred.

WEB Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
⇔ than a fattened calf with hatred.

NET Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
 ⇔ than a fattened ox where there is hatred.

LSV Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there,
Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

FBV Better a dinner of vegetables where there's love than eating meat[fn] with hatred.

15:17 Literally “fattened ox.”

T4T  ⇔ Eating meals with people whom you love and having only vegetables to eat
⇔ is better than eating with people who hate each other and having lots of good meat to eat.

LEB • is a dinner of vegetables when[fn] loveis there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.[fn]

?:? Hebrew “and”

?:? Or “him”

BBE Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

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

ASV Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
 ⇔ Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

DRA It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

YLT Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

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

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

WBS Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

KJB Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
(Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. )

BB Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with euyll wyll.
(Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with evil wyll.)

GNV Better is a dinner of greene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.
(Better is a dinner of greene herbes where love is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith. )

CB Better is a meace of potage with loue, then a fat oxe wt euell will.
(Better is a meace of potage with loue, then a fat oxe with evil will.)

WYC It is betere to be clepid to wortis with charite, than with hatrede to a calf maad fat.
(It is better to be called to wortis with charity, than with hatrede to a calf made fat.)

LUT Es ist besser ein Gericht Kraut mit Liebe denn ein gemästeter Ochse mit Haß.
(It is besser a Gericht Kraut with love because a gemästeter Ochse with Haß.)

CLV Melius est vocari ad olera cum caritate, quam ad vitulum saginatum cum odio.[fn]
(Melius it_is vocari to olera when/with caritate, how to vitulum saginatum when/with odio.)

15.17 Melius est vocari ad olera. Multo enim utilius est simplicis vitæ innocentiam cum charitate servare, etc., usque ad, discedite a me operarii iniquitatis.

15.17 Melius it_is vocari to olera. Multo because utilius it_is simplicis of_life innocentiam when/with charitate servare, etc., usque ad, discedite a me operarii iniquitatis.

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

BrLXX Κρείσσων ξενισμὸς μετὰ λαχάνων πρὸς φιλίαν καὶ χάριν, ἢ παράθεσις μόσχων μετὰ ἔχθρας.
(Kreissōn xenismos meta laⱪanōn pros filian kai ⱪarin, aʸ parathesis mosⱪōn meta eⱪthras. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְ⁠אַהֲבָה & מִ⁠שּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְ⁠שִׂנְאָה

dinner vegetables and,love & than,ox fattened and,hatred

Solomon is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the context if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “is having a portion of vegetables and having love … than having a fattened ox and having hatred”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק

dinner vegetables

Here, a portion of vegetables refers to a small meal without much food. This kind of meal would be eaten by someone who cannot afford to buy meat. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “is very little food” or “is a poor person’s meal”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וְ⁠אַהֲבָה & וְ⁠שִׂנְאָה

and,love & and,hatred

See how you translated the abstract nouns love and hatred in 10:12.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

מִ⁠שּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס

than,ox fattened

Here, a fattened ox refers to a large meal including meat such as a fattened ox. This kind of meal would be eaten by a wealthy person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “than very much food” or “than a wealthy person’s meal”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ⁠שִׂנְאָה־בֽ⁠וֹ

and,hatred in=him/it

Here Solomon refers to feeling hatred as if that hatred were an object that someone could have with a fattened ox. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “while having hatred”

Parallel PRO 15:17