Proverbs 17:1
Modern Translations
New International Version
Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.

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

English Standard Version
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Berean Study Bible
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

New American Standard Bible
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.

NASB 1995
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.

NASB 1977
Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.

Amplified Bible
Better is a dry morsel [of food served] with quietness and peace Than a house full of feasting [served] with strife and contention.

Christian Standard Bible
Better a dry crust with peace than a house full of feasting with strife.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Better a dry crust with peace than a house full of feasting with strife.

Contemporary English Version
A dry crust of bread eaten in peace and quiet is better than a feast eaten where everyone argues.

Good News Translation
Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than have a banquet in a house full of trouble.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Better a bite of dry bread [eaten] in peace than a family feast filled with strife.

International Standard Version
Dry crumbs in peace are better than a full meal with strife.

NET Bible
Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

New King James Version
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

King James 2000 Bible
Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

New Heart English Bible
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

World English Bible
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

American King James Version
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

American Standard Version
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

A Faithful Version
Better is a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with fighting.

Darby Bible Translation
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.

English Revised Version
Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than an house full of feasting with strife.

Webster's Bible Translation
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Better is a dry morsell, if peace be with it, then an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Better is a drye morsell with quietnesse, then a house full of fat offeryng with strife.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Better is a drye morsell wt quyetnesse, the a full house and many fatt catell wt stryfe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, "" Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

Young's Literal Translation
Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

Smith's Literal Translation
Good a dry morsel and peace with it, above a house full of sacrifices of contention.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Catholic Public Domain Version
A dry morsel with gladness is better than a house full of sacrifices along with conflict.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Dry bread in quietness is better than a house full of the sacrifices of judgment.

Lamsa Bible
BETTER is dry bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.
















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