1 Kings 12:14
and speaketh unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, 'My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I -- I chastise you with scorpions;'
Exodus 1:14
and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.
Exodus 5:5-9
Pharaoh also saith, 'Lo, numerous now is the people of the land, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'
Exodus 5:16-18
Straw is not given to thy servants, and they are saying to us, Make bricks, and lo, thy servants are smitten -- and thy people hath sinned.'
1 Kings 12:10-11
And they speak unto him -- the lads who had grown up with him -- saying, 'Thus dost thou say to this people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make it light upon us; thus dost thou speak unto them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father;
2 Chronicles 22:4-5
And he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab, for they have been his counsellors, after the death of his father, for destruction to him.
Esther 1:16-21
And Memucan saith before the king and the heads, 'Not against the king by himself hath Vashti the queen done perversely, but against all the heads, and against all the peoples that are in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus;
Esther 2:2-4
and servants of the king, his ministers, say, 'Let them seek for the king young women, virgins, of good appearance,
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.
Proverbs 13:10
A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:18
Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better is the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.
Isaiah 19:11-13
Only, fools are the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, 'A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'
Daniel 6:7
Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.
James 3:14-2
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;