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for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.
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My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.
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Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
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Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil.
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Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
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Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.
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How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!
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Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.
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Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
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Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.
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Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.
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Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.
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What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.
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Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
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Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.
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A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
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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
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Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
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Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
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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.
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Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse.
