Proverbs 15:17

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love ¹  than a fattened ox where there is hatred. ² 

Ps 133:1-3; Pr 17:1; Pr 21:19; Php 2:1; 1Jo 4:16

¹ tn Heb “and love there.” This clause is a circumstantial clause introduced with vav, that becomes “where there is love.” The same construction is used in the second colon.

² sn Again the saying concerns troublesome wealth: Loving relationships with simple food are better than a feast where there is hatred. The ideal, of course, would be loving family and friends with a great meal in addition, but this proverb is only comparing two things.