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Proverbs 15:22

Proverbs 15:22 is verse 22 of Proverbs chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

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

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Proverbs 15:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

21 Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.

22 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

23 A man takes joy in a fitting reply— and how good is a timely word!

24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 11:14
For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

Proverbs 20:18
Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.

Ecclesiastes 8:6
For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.