Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man disposes his way. But it is for Lord to direct his steps.
Catholic Public Domain 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 justice, than many fruits with iniquity.
10Foreknowledge is in the lips of the king. His mouth shall not err in judgment.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7Indeed, it was the will of God against Ahaziah that he would go to Joram, and when he had gone, that he also would go out with him against Jehu, the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue.
Proverbs 20:24The steps of men are directed by the Lord. But who is the man able to understand his own way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel, which is against the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not his own. Neither is it given to man to walk and to direct his own 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 →