Proverbs 1:5
5Let the wise hear and aincrease in learning,and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Proverbs 9:9
9Give instruction ▼▼Hebrew lacks instruction
to a wise man, and he will be cstill wiser;teach a righteous man, and he will dincrease in learning.
Proverbs 19:20
20Listen to advice and accept instruction,that you may gain wisdom in ethe future.
Ecclesiastes 4:13
13Better was fa poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how gto take advice.Jeremiah 38:15-28
15Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.” 16Then King Zedekiah swore hsecretly to Jeremiah, i“As the Lord lives, jwho made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of kthese men who seek your life.”17Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: lIf you will surrender to mthe officials of the king of Babylon, nthen your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live. 18But if you do not surrender to othe officials of the king of Babylon, pthen this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, qand they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.” 19King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans rwho have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me.” 20Jeremiah said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the Lord in what I say to you, sand it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared. 21But if you refuse to tsurrender, this is the vision which the Lord has shown to me: 22Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying,
u“‘Your trusted friends have deceived you
and prevailed against you;
now that your feet are sunk in the mud,
they turn away from you.’
23All your wives and vyour sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”
24Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die. 25If wthe officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,’ 26then you shall say to them, x‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’” 27Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard. 28And Jeremiah remained yin the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
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