A good reputation ¹  is better ²  than precious ³  perfume; ⁴  likewise, ⁵  the day of one’s ⁶  death ⁷  is better than the day of one’s birth. ⁸ 

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!

“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord ¹  alone must be utterly destroyed. ² 

Now the materials were more than enough ¹  for them to do all the work. ² 

Balak again sent princes, ¹  more numerous and more distinguished than the first. ² 

If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt. ¹ 

King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth. ¹ 

Omri did more evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord than all who were before him.

I will build a great temple, for our God is greater than all gods.

King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth. ¹ 

King Tiglath-pileser ¹  of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support. ² 

so that I ¹  would prefer ²  strangling, ³  and ⁴  death ⁵  more ⁶  than life. ⁷ 

“My days ¹  are swifter than a runner, ²  they speed by without seeing happiness.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking ¹  to Job, because the others ²  were older than he was.

Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you! ¹ 

You make me happier ¹  than those who have abundant grain and wine. ² 

and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? ¹  You grant mankind ²  honor and majesty; ³ 

Because ¹  experiencing ²  your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.

That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.