Proverbs 15:22
Plans fall apart without good advice, but with plenty of advisors they're successful.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
In Context
21Stupidity makes people with no sense happy, but sensible people do what is right.
23A good answer makes people happy—it's great to say the right thing at the right moment!
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12Let me give you some advice so you can save your life, and that of your son Solomon.
Proverbs 11:14A nation falls without good guidance, but they are saved through much wise counsel.
Proverbs 24:6for with wise guidance you can go to war; you will be victorious by having many good advisors.
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 →