Better Things in Proverbs (2)
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for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, And my revenue than choice silver.
Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil. Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.
Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.
Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.
What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.
it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. What you have seen with your eyes
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse.