⁶ And king Rehoboam consulteth with the aged men who have been standing before Solomon his father in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?'

⁷ I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

²⁰ for ye have shewed yourselves perverse in your souls, for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God saith, so declare to us, and we have done `it';

² and they say unto Jeremiah the prophet, `Let, we pray thee, our supplication fall before thee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, for all this remnant; for we have been left a few out of many, as thine eyes do see us;

³ and Jehovah thy God doth declare to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.'

⁴ And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto them, `I have heard: lo, I am praying unto Jehovah your God according to your words, and it hath come to pass, the whole word that Jehovah answereth you, I declare to you -- I do not withhold from you a word.'

⁵ And they have said to Jeremiah, `Jehovah is against us for a witness true and faithful, if -- according to all the word with which Jehovah thy God doth send thee unto us -- we do not so.

¹⁰ Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better `is' a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

²⁰ Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

¹⁵ The way of a fool `is' right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel `is' wise.

¹² With the very aged `is' wisdom, And `with' length of days understanding.

¹³ With Him `are' wisdom and might, To him `are' counsel and understanding.

⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

⁹ (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

⁵ And Absalom saith, `Call, I pray thee, also for Hushai the Archite, and we hear what `is' in his mouth -- even he.'

⁶ And Hushai cometh in unto Absalom, and Absalom speaketh unto him, saying, `According to this word hath Ahithophel spoken; do we do his word? if not, thou -- speak thou.'

²⁰ And Absalom saith unto Ahithophel, `Give for you counsel what we do.'