For with wise advice you wage war and in many counselors there is victory.
Without guidance people fall, with many counselors there is deliverance.
Plans are made by counsel, so wage war with guidance.
Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
“Or what king, going to make war against another king, won’t first sit down to consider whether he is able with ten thousand to confront the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
He did evil in the sight of Adonai, like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after his father’s death—to his destruction.