Ecclesiastes 8:6; Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 20:18
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...
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but (f) in the multitude of counsellors they are established. (f) Read ( Proverbs 11:14 ).
Proverbs 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One ( Proverb...
counsellors. But they must be "counsellors". they are. Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac read "counsel is".
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established. But in the multitude of counsellors - See note o...
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. Without counsel (Hebrew, sod-literally,...
1. Grievous ] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'
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...
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...
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 i...
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 o...
Without counsel purposes are disappointed ,.... If a man determines and resolves upon a matter, and at once hastily and precipitately goes about it,...
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. Ver. 22. Without counsel purposes are disap...
Without counsel When men do not seek, or will not receive advice from others in weighty affairs; purposes are disappointed Their designs are ill...
22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. See here, 1. Of what ill con...
Without counsel, when men do not seek or will not receive advice from others in weighty affairs, purposes are disappointed; their designs are ill...
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 th...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 15:21 . Walketh uprightly , rather “goes straightforward.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:21 OPPOSITE TASTES I....
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 miscon...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath . Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured pers...
v. 22. Without counsel, purposes are disappointed, plans are sure to fail if they have not been considered carefully and from every angle in advanc...
Counsel — When men do not seek, or will not receive advice from others.
22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.