⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

⁹Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

¹⁴Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

¹⁵The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

²²Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

²⁰Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

¹⁸Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

⁶For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

⁹Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

²⁴Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

²⁵But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

²⁶I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

⁸But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

⁹And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

¹⁰And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this 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 shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

²²But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.