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A crust in peace beats a banquet in a war zone. The verse prices atmosphere above menu.
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This is a "better than" proverb, and the trade it names is one most people recognize from a holiday table. The NKJV footnotes "feasting" as or sacrificial meals, and the Hebrew is literally sacrifices of strife, which sharpens it: even a religious feast, the best meal a household could put on, is worse than dry bread if the room is at war. The verse is not against abundance. It is observing that abundance does nothing for a house where people cannot be at rest with each other, and that quietness is a real good rather than the absence of one.
Related: Proverbs 15:16–17 · Proverbs 21:9 · Proverbs 17:14
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If this verse has been used to put weight on you that it was never carrying, ask about it directly.