1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, making mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service, in which they made them serve, was with rigor.
Exodus 5:5-9
Pharaoh also said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them cease from their burdens.
Exodus 5:16-18
There is no firewood given unto thy slaves, yet they say to us, Make brick. Behold, thy slaves are beaten; and thy people sin.
1 Kings 12:10-11
And the young men that were grown up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spoke unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them: My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles 22:4-5
Therefore, he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counsellors, after the death of his father, to his destruction.
Esther 1:16-21
And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti, the queen, has not only committed iniquity against the king, but also against all the princes and against all the people that are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.
Esther 2:2-4
Then the king's servants that ministered unto him said, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king,
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are upright, but the astuteness of the wicked is deceit.
Proverbs 13:10
Pride shall certainly give birth to contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 17:14
To release the waters (to speak rashly) is the beginning of contention; therefore, leave off strife before it gets started.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and he who has suffered in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Isaiah 19:11-13
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the counsel of the prudent counsellors of Pharaoh is become carnal; how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of the ancient kings?
Daniel 6:7
All the presidents of the kingdom, magistrates, governors, great ones, and captains have agreed in common accord to promote a royal decree and to confirm it that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
James 3:14-2
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.