Passage cross-references.

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. …

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. …

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

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.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

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.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …