The Meaning of Proverbs 15:22 Explained

Proverbs 15:22

KJV: Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

YLT: Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

Darby: Without counsel purposes are disappointed; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

ASV: Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Proverbs 15:22?

MEANING: What does Proverbs 15:22 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Proverbs 15:22 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Proverbs 15:22?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Proverbs 15:22 Mean?

Verse Meaning

A person who makes his or her plans without asking for advice or comments from other people shows that he or she is excessively self-confident. However, someone who consults others and asks for their advice shows that he realizes he may be overlooking some factors and is not entirely self-confident (cf. Proverbs 11:14).

Context Summary

Proverbs 15:18-33 - Words In Season
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 Christianity. What best proves a Christian is an even temper. It is told of a Japanese gentleman, who was led by a tract to renounce the use of intoxicants and to accept Jesus Christ, that the immediate effect on his temper was so great that his wife, who had often suffered from his uncontrollable fits of anger, said, "If this is the result of Christianity, I want to become a Christian." When the missionaries afterward visited the place, they found her and ten other persons awaiting baptism.
As these proverbs suggest, the quickest method of overcoming and eradicating the wrong is, in the power of God, to cultivate the right. By this we shall tread the way of the wise that goeth upward toward the heavenly life of the angels, and we shall be saved from a hell of misery. See Proverbs 15:24, r.v. Philippians 3:20; Colossians 3:1. [source]

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 15

1  A gentle answer turns away wrath

What do the individual words in Proverbs 15:22 mean?

Go awry plans without counsel but in the multitude of counselors they are established
הָפֵ֣ר מַ֭חֲשָׁבוֹת בְּאֵ֣ין ס֑וֹד וּבְרֹ֖ב יוֹעֲצִ֣ים תָּקֽוּם

הָפֵ֣ר  Go  awry 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Infinitive absolute
Root: פָּרַר 
Sense: to break, frustrate.
מַ֭חֲשָׁבוֹת  plans 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: מַחֲשָׁבָה  
Sense: thought, device.
בְּאֵ֣ין  without 
Parse: Preposition-b, Adverb
Root: אַיִן 
Sense: nothing, not, nought n.
ס֑וֹד  counsel 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: סׄוד  
Sense: council, counsel, assembly.
וּבְרֹ֖ב  but  in  the  multitude 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular
Root: רֹב  
Sense: multitude, abundance, greatness.
יוֹעֲצִ֣ים  of  counselors 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: יׄועֵץ 
Sense: to advise, consult, give counsel, counsel, purpose, devise, plan.
תָּקֽוּם  they  are  established 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: קוּם 
Sense: to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up.

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