'Better' in the Bible
For her benefit is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than gold.
For wisdom is better than rubies, and desirable things cannot be compared to her.
My fruit is better than the purest gold, and what I produce is better than choice silver.
Better is a person of humble standing who nevertheless has a servant, than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.
Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it.
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.
How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.
It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud.
Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.
Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.
What is desirable for a person is to show loyal love, and a poor person is better than a liar.
It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked woman.
for it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.
It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.
A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.