Proverbs 15:22-24

World English Bible

²² Where there is no counsel, plans fail;
    but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
²³ Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth.
    How good is a word at the right time!
²⁴ The path of life leads upward for the wise,
    to keep him from going downward to Sheol.^[a]