Proverbs 15:22
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Updated King James Version
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 destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walks uprightly.
23A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, that you may save yours own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
Proverbs 11:14Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 24:6For by wise counsel you shall make your war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
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 →