bad counsel

⁵The thoughts of the just are judgments. And the counsels of the impious are dishonest.

²²Intentions dissipate where there is no counsel. Yet truly, they are confirmed where there are many counselors.

¹⁶Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not choose to listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you and deceive you. They speak a vision from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.

²⁰Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days. ²¹There are many intentions in the heart of a man. But the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

¹Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.

⁷Go against a foolish man, and he does not acknowledge lips of prudence.

¹⁴Where there is no governor, the people shall fall. But where there is much counsel, well-being shall be.

¹⁵The way of the foolish is right in his own eyes. But whoever is wise listens to counsels.

⁷But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.

²⁰Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.

²⁰Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.

¹Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence. ²But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night.

⁸But he abandoned the counsel of the old men, which they had given to him. And he consulted the young men who had been raised with him, and who were assisting him. ⁹And he said to them: “What counsel do you give to me, so that I may respond to this people, who have said to me: ‘Make light the yoke that your father imposed on us?’ ” ¹⁰And the young men who had been raised with him, said: “You shall speak in this way to this people, who have spoken to you, saying: ‘Your father weighed down our yoke. You should relieve us.’ You shall say this to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the back of my father. ¹¹And now, my father placed a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add more upon your yoke. My father cut you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.’ ”

⁹Ointment and various perfumes delight the heart. And the good advice of a friend is sweet to the soul.

⁶For war is undertaken in an orderly manner, and safety shall be where there are many counsels.

²⁴But they did not listen, nor did they incline their ear. Instead, they walked by their own will and in the depravity of their own wicked heart. And so, they went backward, and not forward,

²⁰Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Present a counsel as to what we ought to do.” ²¹And Ahithophel said to Absalom: “Enter to the concubines of your father, whom he left behind in order to care for the house. Thus, when all of Israel will hear that you disgraced your father, their hands may be strengthened with you.” ²²Therefore, they spread a tent for Absalom on the rooftop. And he entered to the concubines of his father in the sight of all Israel. ²³Now the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was treated as if one were consulting God. So was every counsel of Ahithophel, both when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.