2 Samuel 2:14

^17[+] The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.

²⁶Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

²⁷Joab said, “As God ^[+] lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

⁸Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

²³It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

¹⁸Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

¹⁴The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

¹⁸Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, ¹⁹is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”