Proverbs 15:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”
What this verse means
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. Wisdom listens.
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BSBPD
“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Without counsel <FI>is<Fi> the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 15:22 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 1:12Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
- 1 Chronicles 13:1Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.
- Proverbs 11:14For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
- Proverbs 20:18Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
- Proverbs 24:6Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
- Ecclesiastes 8:6For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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