How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thy iniquity deserveth.

How much less man, that is a worm; and the son of man, who is a worm?

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

That the hypocrite may not reign, lest the people should be ensnared.

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

A Psalm of David. To thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to thee.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.

Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.

Lest thou give thy honor to others, and thy years to the cruel:

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;

Reprove not a scorner, lest he shall hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thy infamy turn not away.

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee: lest thou shouldst say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardst them not; lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew them.

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is made desolate out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

And lest your heart should faint, and ye should fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Behold, when it was whole, it was fit for no work: how much less then shall it be fit for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And saith to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall uphold thee, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Agree with thy adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

For this people's heart is become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

But he said, No; lest while ye gather the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take the fish that first cometh up: and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: take that, and give to them for me and thee.

But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error will be worse than the first.

And he spoke to his disciples, that a small boat should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

It is like a grain of mustard-seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth.

And Jesus answering them, began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:

Lest coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping.

But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there should be an uproar of the people.

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

And in their hands they will bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Those by the way side, are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

When thou goest with thy adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he draw thee before the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

When thou art invited by any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be invited by him;

Then said he also to him that invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbors; lest they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

Lest perhaps after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

For I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

And said to them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art cured: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to thee.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Nevertheless, among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment-hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

But if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Beware therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets;

And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul would have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, struck sail, and so were driven.

Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.