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(3) Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

(6) Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

(9) Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

(13) Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

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

(3) If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

(9) Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

(11) Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

(1) A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

(2) 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.

(3) Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

(3) Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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

(8) Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

(8) Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

(10) Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

(15) Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

(4) For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

(16) Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

(18) Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

(11) Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

(2) Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

(10) How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

(5) Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

(9) They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

(11) And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

(20) And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

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

(2) Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

(3) Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

(8) And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

(8) Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

(26) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

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

(6) But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

(8) Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

(9) And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

(42) And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

(43) And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

(45) And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

(47) And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

(39) No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

(24) Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

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

(9) What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

(9) But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

(38) So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

(8) But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

(15) But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

(17) Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.