1 Kings 12:14
He gave them the answer suggested by the young advisors. He said: My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder! My father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
Exodus 1:14
They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work.
Exodus 5:5-9
Pharaoh added: Look how many people there are in the land! Do you want them to quit working?
Exodus 5:16-18
No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame.
1 Kings 12:10-11
His young advisors said: This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying: 'Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less?' Say to them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's body.'
2 Chronicles 22:4-5
He did what Jehovah considered evil the same as Ahab's family had done. After his father died, they advised him to do what Ahab's family had done. They did this to destroy him.
Esther 1:16-21
Before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but also to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus.
Esther 2:2-4
Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let a search be made for some fair young virgins for the king.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Proverbs 13:10
Pride brings contention, but wisdom is with the well advised.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 17:14
Starting a quarrel is like releasing water [from a floodgate]. Therefore stop contention before it begins.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Isaiah 19:11-13
The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools. The wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh: I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings?
Daniel 6:7
All the governors of the kingdom, the deputies and the governors, the counselors consulted together to establish a royal statute. They made a strong decree, that whoever prays to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions.
James 3:14-2
If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.