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His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, and his life of less value than clay:

And all the enemies of thy people, that hold them in subjection, are most foolish, and are more miserable than very babes.

For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands: for he himself is better than the things which he worshippeth: whereas he lived once, but they never.

Yea, they worshipped those beasts also that are most hateful: for being compared together, some are worse than others.

Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very dreadful: for being much terrified, they thought the things which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.

And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.

Over them only was spread an heavy night, an image of that darkness which should afterward receive them: but yet were they unto themselves more grievous than the darkness.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.

Lend not unto him that is mightier than thyself; for if thou lendest him, count it but lost.

Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.

Great men, and judges, and potentates, shall be honoured; yet is there none of them greater than he that feareth the Lord.

Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself, and wanteth bread.

Burden not thyself above thy power while thou livest; and have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? for if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.

There is none worse than he that envieth himself; and this is a recompence of his wickedness.

Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.

Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.

Many such things have I seen with mine eyes, and mine ear hath heard greater things than these.

What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.

Shall not the dew asswage the heat? so is a word better than a gift.

Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.

He that hath small understanding, and feareth God, is better than one that hath much wisdom, and transgresseth the law of the most High.

It is much better to reprove, than to be angry secretly: and he that confesseth his fault shall be preserved from hurt.

To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

A thief is better than a man that is accustomed to lie: but they both shall have destruction to heritage.

Better is he that hideth his folly than a man that hideth his wisdom.

Necessary patience in seeking the Lord is better than he that leadeth his life without a guide.

Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light: and weep for the fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse than death.

What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?

Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than a man without understanding.

Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.

And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.

For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.

For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.

For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.

Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served a man more unworthy than himself:

I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep house with a wicked woman.

There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering together of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all these are worse than death.

The death thereof is an evil death, the grave were better than it.

Lay up thy treasure according to the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.

It shall fight for thee against thine enemies better than a mighty shield and strong spear.

Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man’s house.

Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.

Remember that a wicked eye is an evil thing: and what is created more wicked than an eye? therefore it weepeth upon every occasion.

For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy.

When I travelled, I saw many things; and I understand more than I can express.

The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than another.

A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.

And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.

For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

If he die, he shall leave a greater name than a thousand: and if he live, he shall increase it.

So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in time they shall all be well approved.

Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both corn while it is green.

Brethren and help are against time of trouble: but alms shall deliver more than them both.

My son, lead not a beggar’s life; for better it is to die than to beg.

A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.

Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have seen but a few of his works.

They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one.

They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods, or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.

Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods, or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.

Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods, or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.

The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a cover and help themselves.

For we, O Lord, are become less than any nation, and be kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.

Now Joacim was a great rich man, and had a fair garden joining unto his house: and to him resorted the Jews; because he was more honourable than all others.

It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.

And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold: for he was stronger than we, and opened the door, and leaped out.

For it is better for us to die in battle, than to behold the calamities of our people and our sanctuary.

Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas’ soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.

Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.

Eleazar also, surnamed Savaran, perceiving that one of the beasts, armed with royal harness, was higher than all the rest, and supposing that the king was upon him,

And concerning the three governments that are added to Judea from the country of Samaria, let them be joined with Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, nor bound to obey other authority than the high priest’s.

Yea more than that, the king commanded to take off his garments, and clothe him in purple: and they did so.

Now when Jonathan heard that Demebius’ princes were come to fight against him with a greater host than afore,

Now therefore be it far from me, that I should spare mine own life in any time of trouble: for I am no better than my brethren.

Yea, he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed such men there as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwellingplace for himself.

He ordained also that that day should be kept every year with gladness. Moreover the hill of the temple that was by the tower he made stronger than it was, and there he dwelt himself with his company.

But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.

And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;

And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.

But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his own accord to the torment,

But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.

Than the king’ being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.

Than the king’ being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.

Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.

And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.

And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to sustain the siege,

And having good success with his weapons in all things he took in hand, he slew in the two holds more than twenty thousand.

Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two hundred of them.

Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their journey toward Timotheus, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.

Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his father’s time.

Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish unto him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wont, perceiving that such sour behaviour came not of good, he gathered together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.

Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:

Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:

So that fighting with their hands, and praying unto God with their hearts, they slew no less than thirty and five thousand men: for through the appearance of God they were greatly cheered.