反而照少年人出的主意對眾民說：『我父親使你們的軛很重，我卻要加重在那上頭呢；我父親用平常鞭子責打你們，我卻要用蠍子鞭呢。』

照着少年人所出的主意对他们说：“我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭；我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我要用蝎子鞭责打你们。”

却照着年轻人所出的主意对他们说：“我使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭！我父亲用鞭子惩罚你们，我却要用蝎子！”

却照着年轻人所出的主意对他们说：“我使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭！我父亲用鞭子惩罚你们，我却要用蝎子！”

却照着年轻人的主意对他们说：“我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭；我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我却要用蝎子鞭责打你们。”

照着少年人所出的主意對他們說：「我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我要用蠍子鞭責打你們。」

卻照着年輕人所出的主意對他們說：「我使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛！我父親用鞭子懲罰你們，我卻要用蠍子！」

卻照着年輕人所出的主意對他們說：「我使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛！我父親用鞭子懲罰你們，我卻要用蠍子！」

卻照著年輕人的主意對他們說：“我父親使你們負重軛，我必使你們負更重的軛；我父親用鞭子責打你們，我卻要用蠍子鞭責打你們。”

依少者之謀、告之曰、我父使爾負重軛、我必益之、我父責爾以鞭、我則責爾以蠍、

循少者之謀、謂民曰、我父使爾負軛、我必使爾負尤重之軛、我父以鞭責爾、我必以蠍責爾、

he followed the advice of the young men and said,“ My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

Instead, he followed the advice of the young men. He said,“ My father put a heavy load on your shoulders. But I’ll make it even heavier. My father beat you with whips. But I’ll beat you with bigger whips.”

King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

and followed the counsel of his younger advisers. He told the people,“ My father laid heavy burdens on you, but I’m going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!”

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.”

He spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

and he spoke to them according to the advice 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 scourges!”

and spake to them after the counsel 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.

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.”

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.

and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said,“ My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”

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.”

事情的結局、比事情的起頭好；心忍耐的，比心驕傲的好。

那人會有智慧或是愚昧，誰能知道呢？他竟要掌管我勞碌所得的一切，就是我在日光之下用智慧所勞碌得來的：這也是虛空。

義人所設計的是公平；惡人的智謀是詭詐。

你們若存着苦毒的妒忌和營私爭勝在心裏，別自己誇勝、作假事以敵真理了。這樣的智慧不是從上頭下來的，是屬地上、屬血氣、屬鬼魔的。哪裏有妒忌和營私爭勝，哪裏就有擾亂和各樣的壞事。惟獨從上頭來的智慧、第一是清潔，其次是和平、溫良、柔順，滿有憐恤和美善果子的，不含糊兩可、不假模假樣。並且正義之果子也是在和平中撒種、給締造和平的人收成的。你們中間爭戰從哪兒來，鬥毆從哪兒來呢？豈不是從那在你們肢體中交戰的宴樂慾而來的麼？你們貪慾而無所有，你們就殺人；你們切求而不能得，你們就鬥毆爭戰。你們得不着，因為你們不求。

他行了永恆主所看為壞的事，因為他父親死了以後、有亞哈家的人給他主謀，以致他敗壞。他竟實行了亞哈家的主謀，同以色列王亞哈的兒子約蘭往基列的拉末去、跟亞蘭王哈薛交戰；亞蘭人擊傷了約蘭。

國家呀，你的王若是個孩童，你的大臣若早晨喫喝宴樂，你就有禍了！

國中的總長、欽差、總督、參謀和巡撫、彼此商議：願能立條王家法典，嚴格施行一道禁令：三十天以內，無論何人、王啊，除了求你以外，若向任何神或任何人求甚麼，就必須給扔在獅子坑中。

紛爭之起點如放水；故爭吵尚未暴發，先要放棄。

那些跟他一齊長大的少年人對他說：『這些人對王說：「你父親使我們的軛很重，你呢，你使那軛輕鬆些吧」：王要對他們這麼說：「我的小拇指比我父親的腰還粗呢。我父親將重的軛給你們馱上，現在呢、我要使你們的軛加重了；我父親用平常鞭子責打你們，我卻要用蠍子鞭呢。」』