Proverbs 15:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 15:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 11:14
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Ecclesiastes 8:6
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

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Advice Caution Consistency Convention Counsel Expediency Graces Ignorance

Commentary

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

(vv. 22)

See here, 1. Of what ill consequence it is to be precipitate and rash, and to act without advice: Men’s purposes are disappointed, their measures broken, and they come short of their point, gain not their end, because they would not ask counsel about the way. If men will not take time and pains to deliberate with themselves, or are so confident of their own judgment that they scorn to consult with…

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

(vv. 22)

22. Without counsel--or, “deliberation,” implying a wise deference to the opinions of the wise and good, contrasted with rashness.