⁷ They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

⁸ But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones serving him. ⁹ He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to these people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”