22 Plans fail when there is no counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.(A)

23 A person takes joy in giving an answer;[a]
and a timely word—how good that is!(B)

24 For the prudent the path of life leads upward,
so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

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Footnotes

  1. 15:23 Lit in an answer of his mouth

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