SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:14
¶ Cuando faltaren la inteligencia, caerá el pueblo; mas en la multitud de consejeros hay salud.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. Where no counsel [is], the people fall , etc.] Where there is no wise and prudent, sound and good counsel, as the word signifies; where that is not, there had as good be none, or better; a people, a kingdom, a commonwealth, nation, or city, fall into ruin and destruction, or into schemes which bring them to it; they are like a ship without a pilot, or without a helm, or one to steer it: the Targum, Syriac, and Vulgate Latin versions, render it, “where there is no governor;” and the Arabic version, “they that have no providence (or forecast) fall as a leaf falls;” and so the Septuagint version, “they that have no government fall as leaves,” as leaves fall in autumn; and the word signifies the helm of government f303 , in allusion to a ship; but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety ; because what one may miss another may hit upon; and, if they agree in their advice, it may be the more depended upon; and, if not, yet their different sentiments being compared together, and the reasons of them, a person may the better judge which is best to follow, and what is fit to be done: it may be rendered, “in the greatness” or “largeness of a counsellor” f304 , for the word is in the singular number; that is, in the large capacity or endowments of a counsellor; in one that is abundantly qualified for a counsellor; whose abilities are not to be questioned; in the advice of such an one a man may safely confide; and who that answers to this character as Jesus Christ, the wonderful Counsellor? in whose counsel we may rest with the greatest safety; and which may be found in his word, in the Scriptures, which David says should be the men of his counsel, ( <19B924> Psalm 119:24); (see Isaiah 9:6 28:29).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14 - We shall often find it to our advantage to advise with others.
Original Hebrew
באין 369 תחבלות 8458 יפל 5307 עם 5971 ותשׁועה 8668 ברב 7230 יועץ׃ 3289
