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Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 11:14, ESV
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What this means, and why it matters to a father

Solomon wrote from experience as a king who had sought wisdom from everyone he could find — who understood that the solitary decision-maker, however intelligent, was working with a fraction of the available information. The Hebrew word for 'guidance' is tachbulot — literally, the ropes of a ship used to steer it: the practical art of navigation.

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