The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan preserves Jethro's opening directive with a nuance the Hebrew leaves quieter: "Now hearken to me and I will advise thee; and may the Word of the Lord be thy helper! When thou art with the people who seek instruction from before the Lord, thou shouldst take their affair before the Lord" (Exodus 18:19).
Note the humility woven into Jethro's counsel. Before prescribing anything, he invokes the Memra — the Word of the Lord — as Moses's true helper. Jethro positions himself as merely a channel for practical wisdom; the real partner is heaven.
His actual advice is surgical. Moses should separate his roles. For the cases where people "seek instruction from before the Lord" — the torah-teaching cases, the ones requiring direct revelation — Moses remains the intermediary. He alone takes those to God. But the ordinary civil cases, the daily disputes between neighbor and neighbor, do not require the prophet. They require trustworthy judges.
The Aramaic is redrawing the judicial map. One channel runs vertical — Moses to God, for matters of Torah. Many channels run horizontal — judges to people, for matters of monetary law and local disputes. The bottleneck dissolves.
The takeaway: not every problem requires a prophet. Most problems require a capable neighbor with authority and a clear conscience. Knowing which is which is the beginning of functional leadership.