For by wise guidance you wage your own battle, And delivery is by a great counsellor.
And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, like the house of Aḥ
Without guidance the people fall, But in a great counsellor there is safety.
Without counsel, plans go wrong, But by great counsellors they are established.
By counsel plans are established; And by wise guidance wage a battle.
“Or what sovereign, going to fight against another sovereign, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have guarded the belief.