Proverbs 15:17

15:17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love ¹ 

than a fattened ox where there is hatred. ² 

Amos 6:4

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.

[15:17]  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.

[15:17]  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.

[6:4]  ³ tn Heb “beds of ivory.”