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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).

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