New Revised Standard Version
Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Contemporary English Version
A city without wise leaders will end up in ruin; a city with many wise leaders will be kept safe.

New American Bible
For lack of guidance a people falls; security lies in many counselors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

Proverbs 15:22 Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

Proverbs 16:22 Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness.

Proverbs 24:6 Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.

1 Kings 12:1-19 And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king. . . .

Isaiah 19:11-14 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? . . .

Acts 15:6 And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter.