照着少年人所出的主意对民说：“我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭！我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我要用蝎子鞭责打你们！”

他照着年轻人所出的主意对他们说：“我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭！我父亲用鞭子惩罚你们，我却要用蝎子惩罚你们！”

他照着年轻人所出的主意对他们说：“我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭！我父亲用鞭子惩罚你们，我却要用蝎子惩罚你们！”

却照着年轻人给他所出的主意，对他们说：“我父亲加重你们所负的重担，我要使你们负更重的重担；我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我要用蝎子鞭责打你们。”

照着少年人所出的主意對民說：「我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛！我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用蠍子鞭責打你們！」

他照着年輕人所出的主意對他們說：「我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛！我父親用鞭子懲罰你們，我卻要用蠍子懲罰你們！」

他照着年輕人所出的主意對他們說：「我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛！我父親用鞭子懲罰你們，我卻要用蠍子懲罰你們！」

卻照著年輕人給他所出的主意，對他們說：“我父親加重你們所負的重擔，我要使你們負更重的重擔；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用蠍子鞭責打你們。”

反而照少年人出的主意對眾民說：『我父親使你們負的軛很重，我卻要加重你們的軛呢；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我卻要用蠍子鞭責打你們呢。』

依少者之謀、告之曰、我父使爾負重軛、我必益之、我父責爾以鞭、我則責爾以蠍、

乃循少者之謀、謂民曰、我父使爾負重軛、我必使爾負尤重之軛、我父以鞭責爾、我必以蠍責爾、

he followed the advice of the young men and said,“ My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

Instead, he followed the advice of the young men. He said,“ My father put a heavy load on your shoulders. But I’ll make it even heavier. My father beat you with whips. But I’ll beat you with bigger whips.”

he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

and followed the counsel of his younger advisers. He told the people,“ My father laid heavy burdens on you, but I’m going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!”

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice:“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”

and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!”

and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!”

and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice:“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”

And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father[ also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said,“ My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”

and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

紛爭的開始，就如放開的水；捲入爭執之前，當放棄爭辯。

但如果你們心裡懷著苦毒的嫉妒和爭競，就不要自誇、說謊而抵擋真理。這種智慧不是從上面下來的，而是屬地的，屬血氣的，屬鬼魔的。要知道，哪裡有嫉妒和爭競，哪裡就有混亂和各樣的惡事。至於從上面來的智慧，首先是純潔的，然後是和平的、謙和的、溫順的，滿有憐憫和美好的果子的，是不偏私、不虛假的；並且義行的果子，是由那些締造和平的人，在和平中種下的。你們中間的衝突是從哪裡來的？爭執是從哪裡來的？難道不是從你們身體各部分中交戰的私慾而來的嗎？你們渴望而不能擁有，就殺人；你們嫉妒而不能獲得，就爭鬥、作戰。你們不能擁有，是因為你們不求；

事情的盡頭好過事情的開始，靈裡忍耐好過靈裡高慢。

國中所有的總督察、總長、行政官、謀士和省長一同商議，要請王設立一條法規，強制執行一條禁令：王啊，三十天之內，無論何人，如果向你以外的任何神明或任何人祈禱，就必被扔進獅子坑！

狂傲只會帶來紛爭；聽從指教的就有智慧。

彌慕干就在王和首領們面前回答：「王后瓦實提不只是得罪了王，也得罪了所有首領，得罪了亞哈隨魯王各省的全體民眾。如果王后這事傳到所有作妻子的那裡，就會使她們在自己的眼中輕視她們的丈夫，說：『亞哈隨魯王吩咐人請王后瓦實提到自己面前來，她卻沒有來。』今天聽到王后這事的波斯和米底亞的貴婦們，必對王所有的首領說同樣的話；這樣，藐視和震怒的事就會層出不窮。「如果王認為好，就請從王面前發出一道諭令，記在波斯和米底亞的法令上，不可廢去，就是：瓦實提不可再到亞哈隨魯王面前來，而且王要把她的王后之位賜予另一個比她更好的人。當王所制定的這諭旨傳遍全國的廣闊之地，所有作妻子的，無論尊貴的或卑微的，都會敬重她們的丈夫。」這事在王和首領們眼中都看為好；王就照著彌慕干的話去做，

於是事奉王的僕人們說：「讓人為王尋找一些容貌美麗的年輕處女吧！請王在全國各省中指派監督，讓他們把所有容貌美麗的年輕處女都招聚到蘇薩城堡的妃嬪宮，歸在掌管女人的王室太監希該手下，給她們潔身的香品。然後，哪個年輕女子在王眼中看為好，就讓她作王后代替瓦實提。」這事在王眼中看為好，他就如此做了。

瑣安的首領們極其愚妄，法老最智慧的謀士們所出的謀略都是愚拙！你們怎麼能對法老說「我是智慧人的子孫，是古代君王的後裔」？你的智慧人在哪裡呢？讓他們告訴你吧，讓他們去明白萬軍之耶和華對埃及所策劃的！瑣安的首領們愚昧，挪弗的首領們被欺哄；埃及眾支派中當房角石的，使埃及人迷失。

義人的意念都是公正；惡人的指引都是詭詐。

破敗以先，必有驕傲；絆跌之前，靈裡高慢。