1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.
Exodus 5:5-9
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus 5:16-18
There is no straw given to thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick. And, behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault it in thine own people.
1 Kings 12:10-11
And the young men that grew up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall thou say to this people that spoke to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter to us; thus shall thou speak to them, My little f
2 Chronicles 22:4-5
And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, as did the house of Ahab. For they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
Esther 1:16-21
And Memucan answered before the king and the rulers, Vashti the queen has not done wrong only to the king, but also to all the rulers, and to all the peoples that are in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus.
Esther 2:2-4
Then the king's servants who ministered to him said, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs 13:10
Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is [like] letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Isaiah 19:11-13
The rulers of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How will ye say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise men, the son of ancient kings?
Daniel 6:7
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god o
James 3:14-2
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.