But he rejected the counsel the elders had given him, instead consulting with the young men who grew up with him and stood before him.
They spoke to him, saying: “If you will be a servant to this people today, serving them, granting them their petition, and speaking favorably to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
So he asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who have spoken to me saying: ‘Lighten the yoke that your father laid on us?’”
But he disregarded the counsel that the elders had given him and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.
since you ignore all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
they would not accept my counsel, they spurned all my reproof,
Listen to advice and accept instruction, so that in the end you may be wise.
Like a gold earring or a gold ornament is a wise reproof to a receptive ear.