2 Chronicles 10:14
He spoke to them as the young men advised. He said: If my father made your burden heavy, I will add to it. If my father punished you with whips, I will use scorpions.
2 Chronicles 10:10-11
The young men who had grown up with him answered: This is what you should tell them: 'My little finger is heavier than my father's whole 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.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Proverbs 17:14
Starting a quarrel is like releasing water [from a floodgate]. Therefore stop contention before it begins.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and your princes eat in the morning!
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.