Proverbs 15:22
Where there is no counsel, plans are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
In Context
21Folly is joy to him who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding makes his going straight.
23A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou may save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
Proverbs 11:14Where no wise guidance is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 24:6For by wise guidance thou shall make thy war, and in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:22
21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. Note, 1. It is the character of a wicked man that he takes pleasure in sin; he has an appetite to the bait, and swallows it greedily, and has no dread of the hook, nor feels from it when he has swallowed it: Folly is joy to him; the folly of others is so, and his own much more. He sins, not only without regret, but with delight, not only repents not of it, but makes his boast of it. This is a certain sign of one that… Read the whole commentary →