Proverbs 26:1
Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.
Judges 9:7
Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.
Judges 9:20
But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.
Judges 9:56-57
In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;
1 Samuel 12:17-18
Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.
Esther 3:1-15
After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.
Esther 4:6
So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.
Esther 4:9
And Hathach came back and gave Esther an account of what Mordecai had said.
Psalm 12:8
The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.
Psalm 52:1
Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Proverbs 17:7
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
Proverbs 19:10
Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
Proverbs 26:8
Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.
Proverbs 28:16
The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.
Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler: