and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skill
All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an o
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.
The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your fath