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Friday, October 11th, 2024
the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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New Living Translation

Proverbs 15:22

Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many advisers bring success.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Convention;   Counsel;   Prudence;   Union;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Advice;   Counsel;   Counsellors;   The Topic Concordance - Counsel;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Counsellor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Head;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Counsellor;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Disappoint;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Without consultation, plans are frustrated,But with many counselors they succeed.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thoughtes without counsayle shall come to naught: but wheras men are that can geue good counsayle, there is stedfastnesse.
Darby Translation
Without counsel purposes are disappointed; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
New King James Version
Without counsel, plans go awry, But in the multitude of counselors they are established.
Literal Translation
Without counsel purposes are broken, but by many counselors they rise.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you don't ask for advice, your plans will fail. With many advisors, they will succeed.
World English Bible
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; But in a multitude of counselors they are established.
King James Version (1611)
Without counsell, purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellours they are established.
King James Version
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vnaduysed thoughtes shal come to naught, but where as are men yt can geue councell, there is stedfastnesse.
THE MESSAGE
Refuse good advice and watch your plans fail; take good counsel and watch them succeed.
Amplified Bible
Without consultation and wise advice, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they are established and succeed.
American Standard Version
Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Bible in Basic English
Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.
Update Bible Version
Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counselors they are established.
Webster's Bible Translation
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.
New English Translation
Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established.
Contemporary English Version
Without good advice everything goes wrong— it takes careful planning for things to go right.
Complete Jewish Bible
Without deliberation, plans go wrong; but with many advisers, they succeed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Without cousel thoughts come to nought: but in the multitude of counsellers there is stedfastnesse.
George Lamsa Translation
Those who have undue respect for the counsel fail to appreciate its purpose; but in the multitude of counsellors the counsel is established.
Hebrew Names Version
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; But in a multitude of counselors they are established.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For want of counsel purposes are frustrated; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
New Life Bible
Plans go wrong without talking together, but they will go well when many wise men talk about what to do.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They that honour not councils put off deliberation; but counsel abides in the hearts of counsellors.
English Revised Version
Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Berean Standard Bible
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
New Revised Standard
Without counsel, plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Plans, are frustrated, for lack of consultation, but, by the multitude of counsellors, shall counsel, be established.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.
Lexham English Bible
Plans go wrong when there is no counsel, but with many advisors it will succeed.
English Standard Version
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
New American Standard Bible
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed.
New Century Version
Plans fail without good advice, but they succeed with the advice of many others.
Good News Translation
Get all the advice you can, and you will succeed; without it you will fail.
Christian Standard Bible®
Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thouytis ben distried, where no counsel is; but where many counseleris ben, tho ben confermyd.
Revised Standard Version
Without counsel plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed.
Young's Literal Translation
Without counsel [is] the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

Contextual Overview

22 Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many advisers bring success.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 11:14, Proverbs 20:18, Ecclesiastes 8:6

Reciprocal: Judges 19:30 - consider 1 Chronicles 13:2 - If it seem 2 Chronicles 30:2 - the king 2 Chronicles 32:3 - took counsel Psalms 141:5 - the righteous Proverbs 24:6 - and Acts 15:6 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Without counsel purposes are disappointed,.... If a man determines and resolves upon a matter, and at once hastily and precipitately goes about it, without mature deliberation, without consulting with himself, and taking the advice of others in forming a scheme to bring about his designs, it generally comes to nothing; see

Luke 14:28; or "without a secret" s without keeping one; if a man divulges his intentions, it is much if they are not frustrated; so the Targum,

"vain are the thoughts (or designs) where there is no secret;''

if a man makes no secret of what he designs to do, he is easily counterworked, and his purposes disappointed;

but in the multitude of counsellors they are established; his purposes are, as in Proverbs 20:18; having the advice of others, and these many, he is confirmed that he is right in what he has thought of and purposed to do; and therefore goes about it with the greater spirit and cheerfulness, and is most likely to succeed, and generally does; see

Proverbs 11:14.

s באין סוד "in non secreto", Montanus; "cum non sit secretum", Baynus; "quum nullum est arcanum", Schultens; "ubi non est secretum", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Counsellors - The Hebrew word, used almost as an official title 1 Chronicles 27:32; Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 19:11, brings before us the picture of the council-chamber of Eastern countries, arranged for a solemn conference of the wise.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 15:22. But in the multitude of counsellorsProverbs 11:14. But רב יועצים rob yoatsim might be translated, chief or master of the council, the prime minister.


 
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