A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath
Proverbs 15:22
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
- KJV
- Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
- WEB
- Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
- ASV
- Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
- LSV
- The making void of purposes [is] without counsel, || And in a multitude of counselors it is established.
- YLT
- Without counsel [is] the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.
- DBY
- Without counsel purposes are disappointed; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
- DRC
- Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.
- GNV
- Without cousel thoughts come to nought: but in the multitude of counsellers there is stedfastnesse.
- JPS
- For want of counsel purposes are frustrated; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
- LXXE
- They that honour not councils put off deliberation; but counsel abides in the hearts of counsellors.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הָפֵ֣ר מַ֭חֲשָׁבוֹת בְּאֵ֣ין ס֑וֹד וּבְרֹ֖ב יוֹעֲצִ֣ים תָּקֽוּם׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὑπερτίθενται λογισμοὺς οἱ μὴ τιμῶντες συνέδρια, ἐν δὲ καρδίαις βουλευομένων μένει βουλή.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 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.
- Ecclesiastes 8:6For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).