The other group are the ‘better … than’ sayings. Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it. (Prov. 15:17) Synonymous parallelism Synonymous parallelism occurs when the second half of the sentence repeats the essential point of the first half, but in different words, e.g. Proverbs 19:5, A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape. The true comparisons, or similes (‘Like … so/is …’), can be classed as a subgroup of this type. Like snow