Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest (thou know not) what to do in the end - (Proverbs 17:14.) Amaziah did not anticipate the shameful "end," or he would not have gone forth hastily to strive with Joash (2 Kings 14:8-14). So Josiah as to Pharaoh (2 Chronicles 35:20-24).