Proverbs 20:24
A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.
Psalms 37:23The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.
Proverbs 16:1The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Daniel 5:23But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:24
23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord ; and a false balance is not good. This is to the same purport with what was said v. 20 . 1. It is here repeated, because it is a sin that God doubly hates (as lying, which is of the same nature with this sin, is mentioned twice among the seven things that God hates, ch. vi. 17 , 19 ), and because it was probably a sin very much practised at that time in Israel, and therefore made light of as if there were no harm in it, under pretence that, being commonly used,… Read the whole commentary →