1 Kings 12:14
He spoke to them according to the advice of the youngsters, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add onto your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all [sorts] of work in the field--with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.
Exodus 5:5-9
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land [are] now many, and you want to stop them from their {forced labor}."
Exodus 5:16-18
Straw [is] not being given to your servants, but [they are] saying to us, 'Make bricks!' and, look, your servants [are] being beaten, but it is the fault of your people."
1 Kings 12:10-11
Then the youngsters who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you: 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten [it] for us,' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles 22:4-5
And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as the house of Ahab [had done], for they were his counselors to his destruction after the death of his father.
Esther 1:16-21
And Memucan said before the king and the officials, "Not only has Queen Vashti done wrong to the king, but to all the officials and all of the people who [are] in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.
Esther 2:2-4
And the king's servants attending him said, "Let them seek attractive young virgins for the king.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
Proverbs 13:10
Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom [is] with those who take advice.
Proverbs 16:18
Before destruction [comes] pride, and before a fall, a haughty spirit.
Proverbs 17:14
[Like] the release of water [is] the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a matter [is] better than its beginning; {better to be slow to anger than hot-headed}.
Isaiah 19:11-13
Surely the princes of Zoan [are] foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh [give] senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I myself [am] a son of sages, a {descendant} of ancient kings"?
Daniel 6:7
All of [the] administrators of the kingdom, and the prefects, the satraps, the counselors and the governors took counsel [and have] agreed to establish an edict of the king and to enforce a decree that {whoever} will seek a prayer from any god or human except from you [for] up to thirty days will be thrown into {the lion pit}.
James 3:14-2
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.