2Ch 10:14
And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I {will chastise you} with scorpions.
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Better {is} the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: {and} the patient in spirit {is} better than the proud in spirit.
And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou {it} somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little {finger} shall be thicker than my father's loins.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise {man} or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This {is} also vanity.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. {decree: or, interdict}
The thoughts of the righteous {are} right: {but} the counsels of the wicked {are} deceit.
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king {is} a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
The beginning of strife {is as} when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
The beginning of strife {is as} when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.