Proverbs 11:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 11:14 —

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Proverbs 24:6
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 15:22
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
1 Kings 12:1-19
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14)

Here is, 1. The bad omen of a kingdom’s ruin: Where no counsel is, no consultation at all, but every thing done rashly, or no prudent consultation for the common good, but only caballing for parties and divided interests, the people fall, crumble into factions, fall to pieces, fall together by the ears, and fall an easy prey to their common enemies. Councils of war are necessary to the operations…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. counsel--the art of governing (Pr 1:5). counsellors--literally, “one giving counsel”; the participle used as a collective.