Proverbs 15:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Proverbs 15:22 - Albert 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, arra...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but (f) in the multitude of counsellors they are established. (f) Read ( Proverbs 11:14 ).

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One ( Proverbs 15:11 ) is noteworthy as showing an extended con...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  counsellors. But they must be "counsellors". they are. Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac read "counsel is".

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established. But in the multitude of counsellors - See note on Proverbs 11:13 (note). But רב יועצים rob yoats...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. Without counsel (Hebrew, sod-literally, secret counsel) purposes are disappointed: but in...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Grievous ] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A m...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Words in Season Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 15:11 . This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh a...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 w...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. Ver. 22. Without counsel purposes are disappointed. ] The word here rendered "counsel" signif...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Without counsel When men do not seek, or will not receive advice from others in weighty affairs; purposes are disappointed Their designs are ill managed, and succeed accordingly; but in the mult...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.       See here, 1. Of what ill consequence it is to be precipitate and rash, and to...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Without counsel, when men do not seek or will not receive advice from others in weighty affairs, purposes are disappointed; their designs are ill managed, and succeed accordingly. In the multitu...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Introduction To Part 2 ( Proverbs 15:22 ). The first part of this collection of Solomon's proverbs commenced with a reference to the father and the mother as being a young man's guide ( Proverbs 1...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 15:21 . Walketh uprightly , rather “goes straightforward.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:21 OPPOSITE TASTES I. Joy is a revealer of human character . A stone ca...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 15:1 . A soft answer turneth away wrath. It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, sa...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath . Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 22. Without counsel, purposes are disappointed, plans are sure to fail if they have not been considered carefully and from every angle in advance; but in the multitude of counselors they are es...

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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• Proverbs 15:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Counsel — When men do not seek, or will not receive advice from others.

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