Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Plans fail without advice and stand firm with many counsellors. Wisdom asks for help.
Proverbs 11:2
Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Pride ends in shame; wisdom lives with the humble.
KJVProverbs 11:2 in context
1A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. 2When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. 3The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. 5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Short sayings of practical wisdom for everyday life, many attributed to Solomon.
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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
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