Proverbs 20:18
Thouytis ben maad strong bi counselis; and bateils schulen be tretid bi gouernals.
Bible (Wycliffe)
In The King James Version
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
In Context
17The breed of a leesing is sweet to a man; and aftirward his mouth schal be fillid with rikenyng.
19Be thou not medlid with him that schewith pryuetees, and goith gylefulli, and alargith hise lippis.
Cross References
Judges 9:29`Y wolde, that sum man yaf this puple vndur myn hond, that Y schulde take awei Abimelech fro the myddis. And it was seid to Abymelech, Gadere thou the multitude of oost, and come thou.
Judges 20:7Alle ye sones of Israel ben present; deme ye, what ye owen do.
Judges 20:23so netheles that thei stieden bifore, and wepten bifor the Lord `til to nyyt, and counseliden hym, and seiden, Owe Y go forth more to fiyte ayens the sones of Beniamyn, my britheren, ether nay? To whiche he answeride, Stie ye to hem, and bigynne ye batel.
2 Kings 18:20To whom Joab seide, Thou schalt not be messanger in this dai, but thou schalt telle in another dai; I nyle that thou telle to dai, for the sone of the kyng is deed.
Proverbs 11:14Where a gouernour is not, the puple schal falle; but helthe `of the puple is, where ben many counsels.