Ecclesiastes 11:14

Nova Vulgata

Ubi non adsunt dispositiones, populus corruet; salus autem, ubi multa consilia.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ubi non est gubernator, populus corruet ; salus autem, ubi multa consilia.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ubi non est gubernator, populus corruet;
salus autem, ubi multa consilia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 15:22, Proverbs 16:22, Proverbs 24:6, 1 Kings 12:1-19, Isaiah 19:11-14, Acts 15:6-21

Reciprocal: Judges 19:30 - consider 1 Kings 1:12 - let me 1 Kings 20:7 - all the elders 2 Chronicles 20:21 - consulted 2 Chronicles 30:2 - the king

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Where no counsel [is], the people fall,.... Where there is no wise and prudent, sound and good counsel, as the word signifies; where that is not, there had as good be none, or better; a people, a kingdom, a commonwealth, nation, or city, fall into ruin and destruction, or into schemes which bring them to it; they are like a ship without a pilot, or without a helm, or one to steer it: the Targum, Syriac, and Vulgate Latin versions, render it,

"where there is no governor;''

and the Arabic version,

"they that have no providence (or forecast) fall as a leaf falls;''

and so the Septuagint version,

"they that have no government fall as leaves,''

as leaves fall in autumn; and the word signifies the helm of government o, in allusion to a ship;

but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety; because what one may miss another may hit upon; and, if they agree in their advice, it may be the more depended upon; and, if not, yet their different sentiments being compared together, and the reasons of them, a person may the better judge which is best to follow, and what is fit to be done: it may be rendered, "in the greatness" or "largeness of a counsellor" p, for the word is in the singular number; that is, in the large capacity or endowments of a counsellor; in one that is abundantly qualified for a counsellor; whose abilities are not to be questioned; in the advice of such an one a man may safely confide; and who that answers to this character as Jesus Christ, the wonderful Counsellor? in whose counsel we may rest with the greatest safety; and which may be found in his word, in the Scriptures, which David says should be the men of his counsel, Psalms 119:24; see Isaiah 9:6.

o תחבלות "gubernationes", Schultens. p ברב יועץ "in amplitudine consiliarii", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Counsel - See Proverbs 1:5 note. This precept may well be thought of as coming with special force at the time of the organization of the monarchy of Israel. Compare 1 Kings 12:6.