Proverbs 15:22
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Berean Standard Bible
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 one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.
23A man takes joy in a fitting reply— and how good is a timely word!
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
Proverbs 11:14For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
Proverbs 24:6Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
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 →