Proverbs 15:22
Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 the fool: and the wise man maketh straight his steps.
23A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12Now then come, take my counsel and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
Proverbs 11:14Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is safety where there is much counsel.
Proverbs 24:6Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
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 →