He asked them, “How do you advise me ¹  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ² 

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; ¹  Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?” ² 

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. ¹  Then ²  they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

Now David ¹  had been told, “Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, ²  “Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!”

After Jehoiada died, the officials of Judah visited the king and declared their loyalty to him. ¹  The king listened to their advice. ² 

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers ¹  and humiliates ²  the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men ³  and makes their advice ⁴  seem foolish,

She is disobedient; ¹  she refuses correction. ²  She does not trust the Lord; she does not seek the advice of ³  her God.

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ¹  of his father.

While he was speaking, Amaziah ¹  said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” ²  So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided ³  to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

You guide ¹  me by your wise advice, and then you will lead me to a position of honor. ² 

Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance. ¹ 

The teaching ¹  of the righteous feeds ²  many, but fools die ³  for lack of wisdom. ⁴ 

The lips of the wise spread ¹  knowledge, but not so the heart of fools. ² 

The person ¹  who hears the reproof that leads to life ²  is at home ³  among the wise. ⁴ 

The one who gives an answer ¹  before he listens ²  – that is his folly and his shame. ³ 

Have I not written thirty sayings ¹  for you, sayings ²  of counsel and knowledge,

Like apples of gold in settings of silver, ¹  so is a word skillfully spoken. ² 

The words of King Lemuel, ¹  an oracle ²  that his mother taught him:

Or who has first given to God, ¹  that God ²  needs to repay him? ³ 

She said, “In the past they would always say, ‘Let them inquire in Abel,’ and that is how they settled things.