Therefore the anger of Jehovah burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?

So it was, as he spoke with him, that the king said to him, Have we made you the king's counselor? Stop! Why should you be killed? So the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has given counsel to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my counsel.

So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had purposed to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring calamity upon Absalom.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and have not desired my reproof:

Give to a wise one, and he will become wiser; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.

Give heed to counsel, and receive instruction, so that you may be wise in your latter days.

As a ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an attentive ear.

A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Even when a fool walks along the way, his heart fails; and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

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

Woe to the rebellious children, says Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of Me; and who pour out drink offerings, but not of My Spirit; that they sweep away sin after sin;