Proverbs 16:9
A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
Bible in Basic English
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 wealth with wrongdoing.
10Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7Now by the purpose of God, Ahaziah's journey to see Jehoram was the cause of his downfall: for when he came there, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu, the son of Nimshi, who had been marked out by the Lord for the destruction of the family of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Proverbs 20:24A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?
Proverbs 21:30Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:23O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding 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 →