Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
In Context
8Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram, for when he came he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.
Proverbs 20:24A man's goings are of LORD, how then can man understand his way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.
Jeremiah 10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:9
8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. Here, 1. It is supposed that an honest good man may have but a little of the wealth of this world (all the righteous are not rich),—that a man may have but little, and yet may be honest (though poverty is a temptation to dishonesty, ch. xxx. 9 , yet not an invincible one),—and that a man may grow rich, for a while, by fraud and oppression, may have great revenues, and those got and kept without right, may have no good title to them nor make… Read the whole commentary →