And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.

Did we not tell you this word in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, so that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

And why has Jehovah brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison to you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

I pray you, speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem: Which is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

And now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them

And they said to him, Be quiet, lay your hand on your mouth and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

And he shall be to you as a restorer of life, and one who cheers your old age. For your daughter-in-law who loves you has borne him, she who is better to you than seven sons.

And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?

And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams!

And Samuel said to him, Jehovah has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Nothing is better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines. And Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel, and so I shall escape out of his hand.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil on Absalom.

But the people answered, You shall not go forth. For if we run away, they will not set their heart on us, even if half of us die. For now you are worth ten thousand of us. And now it is better that you remain to help us from the city.

And also the king's servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

And Jehovah shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David not knowing of it, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.

And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard so that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house. And I will give you a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you the worth of it in silver.

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? And he turned and went away in a rage.

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem to go lusting like the fornications of the house of Ahab, and also have killed your brothers of your fathers house (who were better than you),

If it please the king, let there be a royal command from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may not be changed, that Vashti come no more before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal state to another who is better than she is.

A little to the righteous is better than the riches of many wicked.

Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

This also shall please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

It is better to trust in Jehovah than to trust in man.

It is better to trust in Jehovah than to trust in princes.

The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

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

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.

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.

Therefore I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

Yea, better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Better is a hand filled with rest than two fists with travail and vexation of spirit.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

A poor and a wise child is better than an old and foolish king, who will not be warned any more.

it is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is man the better?

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

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

Do not say, Why was it that the former days were better than these? For you do not ask wisely in regard to this.

Then I praised gladness, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be glad; for that shall go with him of his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

For whoever is chosen, to all those living, there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

And I said, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

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

Surely the snake will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth; for Your love is better than wine.

How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!

even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; those who pine away, pierced because the fruits of my fields failed.

And I will multiply men and beast on you, and they shall increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell as before, and I will do better to you than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

And in any matters of wisdom and understanding that the king asked them, he found them ten times better than all the horoscopists and conjurers who were in all his kingdom.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. She shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

Pass to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, or their border greater than your border?

And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind. And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.

Are you better than No Amon, that dwelt among the Nile branches, waters all around her, whose rampart was the sea, the waters her wall?

Behold the birds of the air; for they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them; are you not much better than they are?

How much better is a man then than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.

And if your hand or your foot causes you to offend, cut them off and throw them from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.

And whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea.

And if your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched

And if your foot offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame than to have two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched

And if your eye offends you, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes to be cast into hell fire

Also no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, The old is better.

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap, having neither storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you better than the birds?

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Then he asked of them the hour when he began to get better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

So then he who gives in marriage does well. But he who does not give in marriage does better.

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

But in enjoining this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

But zealously strive after the better gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.

For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.

being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.