Proverbs 20:18
You establish purposes by counsel, || And with plans you make war.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
In Context
17The bread of falsehood [is] sweet to a man, || And afterward his mouth is filled [with] gravel.
Cross References
Judges 9:29And oh that this people were in my hand—then I turn Abimelech aside”; and he says to Abimelech, “Increase your host, and come out.”
Judges 20:7behold, you [are] all sons of Israel; give for yourselves a word and counsel here.”
Judges 20:23And the sons of Israel go up and weep before YHWH until the evening, and ask of YHWH, saying, “Do I add to draw near to battle with the sons of my brother Benjamin?” And YHWH says, “Go up against him.”
2 Samuel 2:26and Abner calls to Joab and says, “Does the sword consume forever? Have you not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? And until when do you not say to the people to turn back from after their brothers?”
2 Kings 18:20You have said: Only a word of the lips! Counsel and might [are] for battle; now, on whom have you trusted that you have rebelled against me?
Proverbs 11:14Without counsels a people falls, || And deliverance [is] in a multitude of counselors.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:18
17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Note, 1. Sin may possibly be pleasant in the commission: Bread of deceit, wealth gotten by fraud, by lying and oppression, may be sweet to a man, and the more sweet for its being ill-gotten, such pleasure does the carnal mind take in the success of its wicked projects. All the pleasures and profits of sin are bread of deceit. They are stolen, for they are forbidden fruit; and they will deceive men, for they are not what… Read the whole commentary →