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2 Samuel 3:24

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 24 So Joʹab went in to the king and said: “What have you done? Here Abʹner came to you. Why did you send him off so that he successfully got away?

2 Samuel 3:38, 39

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 38 Then the king said to his servants: “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?+ 39 Today I am weak, although anointed as king,+ and these men, the sons of Ze·ruʹiah,+ are too brutal for me.+ May Jehovah repay the evildoer according to his own evil.”+

Proverbs 30:21, 22

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 21 There are three things that make the earth shudder
  And four things it cannot endure:
  
  22 When a slave rules as king,+
  When a fool is glutted with food,

Ecclesiastes 10:7

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 7 I have seen servants on horseback but princes walking on foot just like servants.+