And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
1 Kings 12:14 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. 更多版本Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) 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 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 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And 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 beat you with whips; but I will beat you with scorpions. English Standard Version 2016 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 the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
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 have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
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.