Proverbs 15:22
Plans are frustrated without consultation; but through a multitude of counsellors canst thou maintain thyself.
Leeser Tanakh
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 that is void of sense; but a man of understanding walketh straight forward.
23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word [spoken] at the proper time, how good is it!
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12And now come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thy own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
Proverbs 11:14Where there is no wise guidance, a people must fall: but [it will obtain] help through the multitude of counsellors.
Proverbs 24:6For by wise counsel canst thou conduct thy war; and there is help in a multitude of counsellors.
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 →