The document contains multiple biblical passages comparing different situations as "better than" others. It states that it is better to have little as a righteous person than great wealth as a wicked person. It is better to have love in a simple meal than hatred with an extravagant feast. It is better to serve God than dwell with the wicked, even in difficult circumstances.

1. Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; Psalm 37:16 Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food. Proverbs 12:9 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. Proverbs 15:17 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Psalm 84:10 Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great wealth with turmoil. Proverbs 15:16 Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice. Proverbs 16:8 Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. Proverbs 16:32 Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud. Proverbs 16:19

2. Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly. Proverbs 17:12 Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife. Proverbs 17:1 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 21:9 , Proverbs 25:24 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning. Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse. Proverbs 19:1 Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. Proverbs 21:19 Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse. Proverbs 28:6 Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Proverbs 27:5

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