Proverbs 15:22 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:22: See here, 1. Of what ill consequence it is to be precipitate and rash, and to act without advice: Men's purposes are disappointed, their measures broken, and they come short of their point, gain not their end, because they would not ask counsel about the way.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:22: 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 with himself, and taking the advice of others in forming a scheme to bring about his designs, it generally comes to nothing; see Luk 14:28; or "without a secret" (s) without keeping one; if a man divulges...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:22: Without counsel--or, "deliberation," implying a wise deference to the opinions of the wise and good, contrasted with rashness.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 15:22: Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. (f) Read .