For the profit from it is better than the gain from silver, and its produce more than fine gold;

but afterward she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and what I give is better than choice silver.

Better is one despised, and having a servant, than he honoring himself and lacks bread.

Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah than great treasure and tumult with it.

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

Better is a little with righteousness than great gain without right.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!

It is better to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.

Better is a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with fighting.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

The charm of a man is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a quarrelsome woman and to share a house.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome and angry woman.

for it is better that it should be said to you, Come up here, than that you should be put lower in the presence of a noble whom your eyes have seen.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a quarreling woman and to share a house.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

The full soul despises a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth fighting.