VERSE STUDY • KJV

Proverbs 15:22

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

Read it in 5 translations

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

19 The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain.

20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

21 Folly [is] joy to [him that is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is it]!

24 The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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