And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.
For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he.
And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.
See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.
They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.
My weeping for you, O vine of Sibmah, will be more than the weeping of Jazer: your branches have gone over the sea, stretching even to Jazer: destruction has come down on your summer fruits and your cut grapes.
And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.
And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.
And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
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.
With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.
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.
To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
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;
Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;
Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.
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.
Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.
A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
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.
For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand.
For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.
Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.
Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.
Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.
In answer Jesus said to him, You have faith because I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree. You will see greater things than these.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.
They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.
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