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Prov 21:19
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It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
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Prov 22:1
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A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.
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Prov 25:7
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For it is better that it should be said to thee: Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be humbled before the prince.
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Prov 25:24
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It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
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Prov 27:5
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Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
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Eccles 2:24
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Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.
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Eccles 3:12
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And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
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Eccles 3:22
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And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?
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Eccles 4:9
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It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society:
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Eccles 4:17
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Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.
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Eccles 5:4
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And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.
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Eccles 6:3
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If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
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Eccles 7:2
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A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
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Eccles 7:3
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.
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Eccles 7:4
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Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected.
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Eccles 7:6
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It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools.
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Eccles 7:11
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Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.
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Eccles 9:4
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There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Eccles 9:16
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And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
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Eccles 10:11
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If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.
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Eccles 11:6
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In the morning sow thy seed, and In the evening let not thy hand cease: for thou knowest not which may rather spring up, this or that: and if both together, it shall be the better.
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Cant 1:1
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Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,
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Wis 6:1
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Wisdom is better than strength, and a wise man is better than a strong man.
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Wis 6:1
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Wisdom is better than strength, and a wise man is better than a strong man.
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Wis 15:6
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The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them.
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Wis 15:17
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For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.
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Wis 18:6
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For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage.
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Eccli 16:3
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For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.
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Eccli 16:4
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And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.
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Eccli 18:16
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Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so also the good word is better than the gift.
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Eccli 18:17
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Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a justified man.
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Eccli 20:1
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How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer.
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Eccli 20:27
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A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.
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Eccli 23:37
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And they that remain shall know, that there is nothing better than the fear of God: and that there is nothing sweeter than to have regard to the commandments of the Lord.
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Eccli 29:16
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Better than the shield of the mighty, and better than the spear:
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Eccli 30:15
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Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all gold and silver: and a sound body, than immense revenues.
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Eccli 33:22
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For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.
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Eccli 36:20
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The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another.
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Eccli 36:23
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A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than another.
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Eccli 40:29
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My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.
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Eccli 42:14
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For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.
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Isa 56:5
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I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.
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Lam 4:9
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Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.
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Bar 6:58
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Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods.
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Bar 6:67
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Beasts are better than they, which can fly under a covert, and help themselves.
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Bar 6:70
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They are no better than a white thorn in a garden, upon which every bird sitteth. In like manner also their gods of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, are like to a dead body cast forth in the dark.
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Dan 1:20
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And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.
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Dan 13:23
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But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
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Osee 2:7
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And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.
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Jon 4:3
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And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
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