¹⁹ Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

¹⁸ Before destruction `is' pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

²⁰ for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

²⁰ for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

²⁰ The tree that thou hast seen, that hath become great and strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to all the land,

²¹ and its leaves `are' fair, and its budding great, and food for all `is' in it, under it dwell doth the beast of the field, and on its boughs sit do the birds of the heavens.

¹³ Wo to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.

¹⁴ Who is saying, `I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,' And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermillion.

¹⁵ Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father -- did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then `it is' well with him.

²² An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

²³ The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

⁹ A wise man is judged by the foolish man, And he hath been angry, And he hath laughed, and there is no rest.

²⁷ Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour `is' humility.

¹⁴ The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

⁵ And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, `I do reign;' and he prepareth for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,

¹ And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Absalom prepareth for himself a chariot, and horses, and fifty men are running before him;

³⁶ And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal `is' glad within him, and he `is' drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.

³⁷ And it cometh to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declareth to him these things, and his heart dieth within him, and he hath been as a stone.

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, `in' about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,