22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
22 Without counsel H5475 purposes H4284 are disappointed: H6565 but in the multitude H7230 of counsellors H3289 they are established. H6965
22 Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
22 Without counsel `is' the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.
22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; But in a multitude of counselors they are established.
22 Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.
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Commentary on Proverbs 15 Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
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