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bbe@Job:1:3 @And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

bbe@Job:3:8 @Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

bbe@Job:3:21 @To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

bbe@Job:4:19 @How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

bbe@Job:6:3 @For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

bbe@Job:7:6 @My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

bbe@Job:7:15 @So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

bbe@Job:8:14 @Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

bbe@Job:9:25 @My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

bbe@Job:11:8 @They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

bbe@Job:11:9 @Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

bbe@Job:11:17 @And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

bbe@Job:15:10 @With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

bbe@Job:27:18 @His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

bbe@Job:28:18 @There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

bbe@Job:30:1 @But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

bbe@Job:32:2 @And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

bbe@Job:32:4 @Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

bbe@Job:33:12 @Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

bbe@Job:34:19 @Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

bbe@Job:35:3 @What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

bbe@Job:35:5 @Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

bbe@Job:35:11 @Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

bbe@Job:36:26 @Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

bbe@Job:37:5 @He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

bbe@Job:41:1 @Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

bbe@Job:41:28 @The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

bbe@Job:41:29 @A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

bbe@Job:42:12 @And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

bbe@Psalms:4:7 @Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

bbe@Psalms:8:5 @For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

bbe@Psalms:10:5 @His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

bbe@Psalms:18:17 @He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

bbe@Psalms:19:10 @More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey

bbe@Psalms:27:6 @And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.

bbe@Psalms:37:16 @The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

bbe@Psalms:38:4 @For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

bbe@Psalms:39:5 @You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

bbe@Psalms:40:5 @O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

bbe@Psalms:40:12 @For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

bbe@Psalms:45:2 @You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

bbe@Psalms:51:7 @Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

bbe@Psalms:52:3 @You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

bbe@Psalms:55:21 @The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.

bbe@Psalms:57:5 @O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

bbe@Psalms:57:11 @Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.

bbe@Psalms:62:9 @Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

bbe@Psalms:63:3 @Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.

bbe@Psalms:69:4 @Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

bbe@Psalms:69:31 @This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.

bbe@Psalms:71:15 @My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

bbe@Psalms:71:21 @You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

bbe@Psalms:73:7 @Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

bbe@Psalms:76:4 @You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.

bbe@Psalms:84:10 @For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

bbe@Psalms:87:2 @The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.

bbe@Psalms:90:4 @For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

bbe@Psalms:93:4 @The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

bbe@Psalms:96:4 @For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods.

bbe@Psalms:104:25 @There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

bbe@Psalms:105:24 @And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.

bbe@Psalms:105:34 @At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

bbe@Psalms:106:17 @The earth opening put an end to Dathan, covering up Abiram and his band.

bbe@Psalms:108:4 @For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

bbe@Psalms:108:5 @Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

bbe@Psalms:113:4 @The Lord is high over all nations, and his glory is higher than the heavens.

bbe@Psalms:118:8 @It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.

bbe@Psalms:118:9 @It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.

bbe@Psalms:119:72 @The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

bbe@Psalms:119:98 @Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

bbe@Psalms:119:99 @I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

bbe@Psalms:119:100 @I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

bbe@Psalms:119:103 @How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

bbe@Psalms:119:127 @For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.

bbe@Psalms:130:6 @My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.

bbe@Psalms:135:5 @I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is greater than all other gods.

bbe@Psalms:138:2 @I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

bbe@Psalms:139:6 @Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

bbe@Psalms:139:18 @If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.

bbe@Psalms:142:6 @Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

bbe@Proverbs:3:14 @For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

bbe@Proverbs:3:15 @She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

bbe@Proverbs:5:3 @For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

bbe@Proverbs:8:11 @For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

bbe@Proverbs:8:19 @My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

bbe@Proverbs:11:24 @A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

bbe@Proverbs:12:9 @He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

bbe@Proverbs:15:16 @Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

bbe@Proverbs:15:17 @Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

bbe@Proverbs:16:8 @Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

bbe@Proverbs:16:16 @How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

bbe@Proverbs:16:19 @Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

bbe@Proverbs:16:32 @He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

bbe@Proverbs:17:1 @Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

bbe@Proverbs:17:10 @A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

bbe@Proverbs:17:12 @It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

bbe@Proverbs:18:24 @There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

bbe@Proverbs:19:1 @Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

bbe@Proverbs:19:22 @The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.

bbe@Proverbs:21:3 @To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

bbe@Proverbs:21:9 @It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

bbe@Proverbs:21:19 @It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

bbe@Proverbs:22:1 @A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.

bbe@Proverbs:25:7 @For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

bbe@Proverbs:25:24 @It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

bbe@Proverbs:26:12 @Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

bbe@Proverbs:26:16 @The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

bbe@Proverbs:27:3 @A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

bbe@Proverbs:27:5 @Better is open protest than love kept secret.

bbe@Proverbs:27:10 @Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

bbe@Proverbs:28:6 @Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

bbe@Proverbs:28:23 @He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.

bbe@Proverbs:29:20 @Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

bbe@Proverbs:30:2 @For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:

bbe@Proverbs:31:10 @Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

bbe@Proverbs:31:29 @Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:8 @What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:9:17 @The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

bbe@Songs:1:2 @Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

bbe@Songs:1:4 @Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

bbe@Songs:4:10 @How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

bbe@Songs:5:9 @What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?