Proverbs 15:22

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 15:1-33

Chapter 15Fifteen. I love this first one here.A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger ( Proverbs 15:1 ).How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. If you rage back at them, then get out the gloves, you know, because you're soon going to be going at it. But a soft answer, how it can just mellow out a situation. Oh God, help us to respond with soft answers rather than with grievous words which only tend to stir up the whole scene.The... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 15:1-33

Proverbs 15:1 . A soft answer turneth away wrath. It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said the wary Syrian, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he says, wash, and be clean? Rehoboam, for the want of this wisdom, lost the ten tribes; whereas the intelligent woman on the wall, who wished to speak with Joab, saved the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 15:22

Pro 15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. Ver. 22. Without counsel purposes are disappointed. ] The word here rendered "counsel" signifies ‘secret,’ because counsel should be kept secret; which to signify, the old Romans, as Servius testifieth, built the temple of Consus, their god of counsel, sub tecto in circo, in a public place, but under a covert; and it grew to a proverb, Romani sedendo vincunt; The Romans, by... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 15:22

Proverbs 11:14, Proverbs 20:18, Ecclesiastes 8:6 Reciprocal: Judges 19:30 - consider 1 Chronicles 13:2 - If it seem 2 Chronicles 30:2 - the king 2 Chronicles 32:3 - took counsel Psalms 141:5 - the righteous Proverbs 24:6 - and Acts 15:6 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 15:22

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.Counsel — When men do not seek, or will not receive advice from others. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 15:22

22. Without counsel Or, where there is no consultation. The sentiment of this proverb is similar to Proverbs 11:14, (where see note,) but a number of the words are different. Purposes (or plans) are disappointed Frustrated, broken; that is, are more likely to be; but in the multitude of counsellors, or the greatness of the counsellor, they are established, literally, it shall stand. Compare 1 Chronicles 27:32; Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 19:11. read more