Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

Before destruction [is] pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour [is] humility.

Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

And Haman seeth that Mordecai is not bowing and doing obeisance to him, and Haman is full of fury,

and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who [are] in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.

Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better [is] the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.