But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.