For their calamity shall arise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
The anger of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
A man’s fear of a king is like the roaring of a lion: he who provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
For man also does not know his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the false commandment.