Lexicon :: Strong's G2908 - kreisson

“Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

So he said to them, “What have I done now compared to you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

“Now are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them?

“I was sure you hated her,” her father said, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Why not take her instead? ”

Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites and spared the best sheep, goats, and cattle in order to offer a sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we destroyed.”

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! LORD, take my life, for I’m no better than my ancestors.”

“If it meets the king’s approval, he should personally issue a royal decree. Let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be revoked: Vashti is not to enter King Ahasuerus’s presence, and her royal position is to be given to another woman who is more worthy than she.

The boundary lines have fallen for me

in pleasant places;

indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

The little that the righteous person has is better

than the abundance of many wicked people.

My lips will glorify you

because your faithful love is better than life.

Better a day in your courts

than a thousand anywhere else.

I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God

than live in the tents of wicked people.

“For wisdom is better than jewels,

and nothing desirable can equal it.

“My fruit is better than solid gold,

and my harvest than pure silver.

One who is good obtains favor from the LORD,

but he condemns a person who schemes.

Better to be disregarded, yet have a servant,

than to act important but have no food.

Hope delayed makes the heart sick,

but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Better a little with the fear of the LORD

than great treasure with turmoil.

The LORD is far from the wicked,

but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Better to be lowly of spirit with the humble[fn]

than to divide plunder with the proud.

Patience is better than power,

and controlling one’s emotions,[fn] than capturing a city.

Better a dry crust with peace

than a house full of feasting with strife.

What is desirable in a person is his fidelity;

better to be a poor person than a liar.

Better to live on the corner of a roof

than to share a house with a nagging wife.

Better to live in a wilderness

than with a nagging and hot-tempered wife.

A wise warrior is better than a strong one,[fn]

and a man of knowledge than one of strength;[fn]

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here! ”

than to demote you in plain view of a noble.[fn]

Better an open reprimand

than concealed love.

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,

and don’t go to your brother’s house

in your time of calamity;

better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Better the poor person who lives with integrity

than the rich one who distorts right and wrong.[fn]

One who becomes stiff-necked,

after many reprimands

will be shattered instantly —

beyond recovery.

“I will give them, in my house and within my walls,

a memorial and a name

better than sons and daughters.

I will give each of them an everlasting name

that will never be cut off.

Cross over to Calneh and see;

go from there to great Hamath;

then go down to Gath of the Philistines.

Are you better than these kingdoms?

Is their territory larger than yours?