Proverbs 11:14
For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
BSB
ASV
Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
KJV
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Cassian said, 'Moses the Hermit told us, "It is good not to hide our thoughts; we ought to disclose them to discreet and devout elders; but not to those who are old merely in years, for many have found final despair instead of comfort by …
Counsel - See Pro 1:5 note. This precept may well be thought of as coming with special force at the time of the organization of the monarchy of Israel. Compare 1Ki 12:6.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 15:22Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
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Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
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Proverbs 20:18Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
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Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”
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Proverbs 24:6Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
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Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
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Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
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The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.
Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”