Then Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, "{It is not in my power}; God will answer [concerning] the well-being of Pharaoh."

Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

So be very diligent to love the Lord your God for your own well-being.

And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?"

Take these ten pieces of cheese to the commander of the unit, check on the well-being of your brothers, and bring something back from them.

David left the supplies he had with him in the care of the supply keeper and ran to the battle line. When he arrived there, he asked his brothers about their well-being.

"The land you are entering to possess is a morally unclean land due to the moral uncleanness of the nations of the lands along with their abominations that has filled it from one end to the other with their impurities. So, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor marry their daughters to your sons, and under no circumstances are you to seek their well-being or their wealth, so that you may remain strong, enjoying the best things the land has to give, and so that you may establish an inheritance for your children forever.'

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.

Every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to find out about Esther's well-being and what was happening to her.

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!

I say to the Lord, "You are the Lord, my only source of well-being."

Depart from wickedness and do good, Aim at well-being, and pursue it.

Let those who want my vindication
shout for joy and be glad;
let them continually say,
“The Lord be exalted.
He takes pleasure in His servant’s well-being.”

I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!

Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

For the music director; written by the Korahites, a psalm. O Lord, you showed favor to your land; you restored the well-being of Jacob.

So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.

Guarantee Your servant’s well-being;
do not let the arrogant oppress me.

A song of ascents. When the Lord restored the well-being of Zion, we thought we were dreaming.

O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished.

for they will bring you
many days, a full life, and well-being.

Lo! for well-being, I had bitterness - bitterness, - But, thou, cleaving unto my soul, hast raised me from the pit of corruption, For thou hast cast, behind thy back all my sins.

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

No well-being, saith Yahweh to the lawless,

Yet, he, was pierced for transgressions that were ours, was crushed for iniquities that were ours, - the chastisement for our well-being, was upon him, And by his stripes, there is healing for us.

“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.

No well-being, saith my God, to the lawless!

the way of well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks, - Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well - being.

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of these people.

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.

Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.

For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

My covenant, was with him, Life and Well-being, so I gave them to him - I as One to be revered - and he did revere me, - and, before my Name, dismayed, was he.

Better are those slain with the sword
Than those slain with hunger;
For they pine away, being stricken
For lack of the fruits of the field.

Wherefore she called the well, "the well of the living that seeth me" which well is between Kadesh and Bered.

And as he looked about, behold there was a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lay thereby - for at that well were the flocks watered - and there lay a great stone at the well mouth.

If thou doest well, will not thy countenance look up with confidence? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Now, run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?'" She told Gehazi, "Everything's fine."

Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.

" 'On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {to cleanse them from sin and from impurity}.

O well is him, that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days.

He judged [the] legal cause of [the] needy and [the] poor, [and] then it was well. {Is that not what it means to know me}?" {declares} Yahweh.

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

As the digging of a well, is for its waters, So she hath digged for her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually are sickness and smiting.

For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.

A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.

Well, be ready hereafter, when ye hear the noise of the trumpets blow with the harps, shawmes psalteries, symphonies and all the other melodies: that ye fall down, and worship the Image which I have made. But if ye worship it not, ye shall be cast immediately in to a hot burning oven. Let's see what God is there, that may deliver you out of my hands!"

Then said he, "He may well be called Jacob, for he hath undermined me now two times - first he took away my birthright; and see, now hath he taken away my blessing also." And he said, "Hast thou kept never a blessing for me?"

For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands; O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.

Well is him that findeth wisdom, and obtaineth understanding,

Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth.

He that imagineth mischief, may well be called an ungracious person.

A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.

Well is him that standeth always in awe; as for him that hardeneth his heart, he shall fall into mischief.

Where no Prophet is, there the people perish; but well is him that keepeth the law.

But well is thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is come of nobles, and whose princes eat in due season, for strength and not for lust.

As for their gods, it may well be said of them, "They are gods, that made neither heaven nor earth: therefore shall they perish from the earth, and from all things under heaven."

Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?

"Don't imagine that because you are part of the king's household you will be the one Jew who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father's household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!"

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, - or the bucket by the fountain be shivered, or the wheel at the well be broken;

Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.

But the king of Israel, after reading the letter, was greatly troubled and said, Am I God, to give death and life? why does this man send a leper to me to be made well? is it not clear that he is looking for a cause of war?

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Better is sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better is my death than my life.'

Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with trouble.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without justice.

Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Better is the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

Better is open protest than love kept secret.

Because better is Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.

Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase.

Better is the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.

Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.

Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better is a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better are thy loves than wine.

And your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best, will he take and give to his servants.

But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub, - and asked for his life, that he might die, and said - Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.

Then said Absolom and all the men of Israel, Better, is the counsel of Hushai the Archite, than the counsel of Ahithophel. Yahweh, indeed, had given charge to frustrate the wise counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring upon Absolom, ruin.

For better is a day in thy courts, than a thousand, I choose rather to stand at the threshold in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of lawlessness.