and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou say unto the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

The thoughts of the righteous are just; But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

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And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

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The advice

And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
The thoughts of the righteous are just; But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

My father

And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou say unto the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

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