And about the ten horns on his head and the other which came up, causing the fall of three; that horn which had eyes, and a mouth saying great things, which seemed to be greater than the other horns.
And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last.
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!
Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.
Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.
Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.
When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.
If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;
Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
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.
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.
Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.
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.
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.
And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
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.
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?
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.
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
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.
One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
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.
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
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.
That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
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.
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.
Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.
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.
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.
Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
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.
The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.
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.
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.
The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.
Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
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