for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.

for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread.

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.