Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

无智谋，民就败落；谋士多，人便安居。

无智谋，民就败落；谋士多，就必得胜。

无智谋，民就败落；谋士多，就必得胜。

缺乏智谋，国必败亡；谋士众多，战无不胜。

没有智谋，国家败落；谋士众多，就能得胜。

没有引导，民就落败；谋士众多，就必得胜。

無智謀，民就敗落；謀士多，人便安居。

無智謀，民就敗落；謀士多，就必得勝。

無智謀，民就敗落；謀士多，就必得勝。

缺乏智謀，國必敗亡；謀士眾多，戰無不勝。

沒有智謀，國家敗落；謀士眾多，就能得勝。

無智謀，人民就敗落；謀士多，百姓便安全。

沒有引導，民就落敗；謀士眾多，就必得勝。

無智謀、民必仆、多議士、民乃安、

無良謀、邦必喪、集眾議、國以安。

無政治、民必隕墮、議士多、國乃平康、

For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.

Without guidance a nation falls. But many good advisers can bring victory to a nation.

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Without wise leadership, a nation falls; there is safety in having many advisers.

Without guidance, a people will fall, but with many counselors there is deliverance.

Where there is no guidance the people fall, But in an abundance of counselors there is victory.

Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Without guidance, people fall, but with many counselors there is deliverance.

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

When there is no guidance a nation falls, but there is success in the abundance of counselors.

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it( for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,“ Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”He said to them,“ Depart for three days, then come back to me.” So the people departed.King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying,“ What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”They replied,“ If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.He said to them,“ What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying,‘ Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”The young men who had grown up with him said to him,“ Tell these people who spoke to you, saying,‘ Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them,‘ My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying,“ Come to me again the third day.”The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying,“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying,“ What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh,“ I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them,“ Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.After they were silent, James answered,“ Brothers, listen to me.Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,‘ After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it upthat the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’“ All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”