1 Kings 12:14 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹⁴ And he will speak to them according to the counsel of the children, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add upon your yoke: my father chastised you with whips and I will chastise you with scorpions.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; he chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ and instead followed the young people’s advice. He said, “My father made your workload heavy, but I’ll make it even heavier! My father disciplined you with whips, but I’ll do it with scorpions!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying: "My father weighed down your yoke, but I will add more to your yoke. My father cut you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions."

1 Kings 12:14 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 12:13

And the king will answer the people hard, and he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him;

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians will make the sons of Israel serve by oppression.

Exodus 1:14

And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression.

Proverbs 12:5

The purposes of the just are judgment: the guidance of the unjust, deceit

Proverbs 13:10

Only by pride contention will be given: but with those being advised, wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride before a breaking, and a spirit lifted up before a fall

Proverbs 17:14

The causing water to break forth. is the beginning of strife: cast off contention before being irritated.

Proverbs 29:12

A ruler listening to the word of falsehood, all serving him are unjust

Proverbs 5:13

And I heard not to the voice of him teaching me, and I inclined not mine ear to him instructing me.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Good the last of a word above its beginning: good slowness of spirit above pride of spirit

Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and satraps, and counselors and governors, will counsel together to set up a statute of the kingdom, and to make strong an interdict that whoever shall seek a request from any God and man even to thirty days, except from thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

James 3:14

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.