Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
WEB
For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
YLT
Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.
DBT
Where no advice is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.