Solomon

“Why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah?”

“Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die?”

“Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?”

“For who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”

“Will God indeed dwell on the earth?”

“For who can judge this thy people, that is so great?”

“Who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him?”

“Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?”

“My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you?”

“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?”

“Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?”

“Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?”

“People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving?”

“Is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?”

“But a wounded spirit who can bear?”

“But a faithful man who can find?”

“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”

“I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”

“How can a man then understand his own way?”

“If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?”

“Seest thou a man diligent in his business?”

“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?”

“Who hath woe?”

“Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?”

“Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it?”

“Do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?”

“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?”

“But who is able to stand before envy?”

“Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?”