Proverbs 11:14 (BSB)

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:14

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:14: Here is, 1. The bad omen of a kingdom's ruin: Where no counsel is, no consultation at all, but every thing done rashly, or no prudent consultation for the common good, but only caballing for parties and divided interests, the people fall, crumble into factions, fall to pieces, fall together by the ears, and fall an easy prey to their common enemies.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:14: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:14: counsel--the art of governing (Pro 1:5). counsellors--literally, "one giving counsel"; the participle used as a collective.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 11:14: Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety. (g) Where God gives store of men of wisdom and counsel.