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Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.

How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.

He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

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

A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.

It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.

The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.

To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

…for it is better to be told, “Come up here!” than to be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.

Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.

Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,

Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?

Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,

I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Whatever exists was named long ago, and it is known what man is; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.

Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.

So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.

Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.