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

The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;' thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

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

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning.

All the administrators of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie 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

He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
All the administrators of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

My father

The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;' thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.
Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?
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