¹⁹ The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

²⁰ For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

²⁰ For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

²⁰ The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;

²¹ Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:

¹³ A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

¹⁴ Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

¹⁵ Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

²² An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

²³ A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

⁹ If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

²⁷ Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

¹⁴ The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

⁵ Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

¹ Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

³⁶ And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

³⁷ And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.

³⁸ And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.