Pride {goeth} before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour {is} humility.

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

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart {was} merry within him, for he {was} very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

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

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. {be king: Heb. reign}

{If} a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, {there is} no rest.

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; {that} useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Pride {goeth} before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

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

That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and {it is} cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. {large: Heb. through-aired} {windows: or, my windows}