15:17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love 1
than a fattened ox where there is hatred. 2
6:4 They lie around on beds decorated with ivory, 3
and sprawl out on their couches.
They eat lambs from the flock,
and calves from the middle of the pen.
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.
3 tn Heb “beds of ivory.”