1 Kings 12:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and stood before him.

⁹ And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke which thy father put upon us lighter?

¹⁰ And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.