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Proverbs 15:22 World English Bible (WEB)

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

Cross Reference

Proverbs 11:14 WEB

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, But in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 20:18 WEB

Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!

Ecclesiastes 8:6 WEB

For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

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Commentary on Proverbs 15 Keil & Delitzsch Commentary


Verses 1-6

We take these verses together as forming a group which begins with a proverb regarding the good and evil which flows from the tongue, and closes with a proverb regarding the treasure in which blessing is found, and that in which no blessing is found.

Proverbs 15:1

1 A soft answer turneth away wrath,

And a bitter word stirreth up anger.

In the second line, the common word for anger ( אף , from the breathing with the nostrils, Proverbs 14:17) is purposely placed, but in the first, that which denotes anger in the highest degree ( חמה from יחם , cogn. חמם , Arab. hamiya , to glow, like שׁנה from ישׁן ): a mild, gentle word turns away the heat of anger ( excandescentiam ), puts it back, cf. Proverbs 25:15. The Dagesh in רּך follows the rule of the דחיק , i.e. , of the close connection of a word terminating with the accented eh, aah, ah with the following word ( Michlol 63b). The same is the meaning of the Latin proverb:

Frangitur ira gravis

Quando est responsio suavis