Proverbs 20:24

WEB

²⁴A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

KJV

²⁴Man’s^[+] goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

BSB

²⁴A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

FBV

²⁴The Lord shows us the way to go, so how would we decide for ourselves?

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Extra References

Proverbs 16:9

⁹A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

Jeremiah 10:23

²³LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Psalms 25:12

¹²What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Psalms 37:23

²³A man’s steps are established by the LORD. He delights in his way.

Psalms 25:4

⁴Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.

Proverbs 14:8

⁸The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Acts 17:28

²⁸‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

²³but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Isaiah 10:6-7

⁶I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. ⁷However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.