Proverbs 20:24
The steps of men are directed by the Lord. But who is the man able to understand his own way?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Diverse weights are an abomination with the Lord. A deceitful balance is not good.
25It is ruin for a man to devour what is holy, or, after making vows, to retract them.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4I have not sat with the council of emptiness, and I will not enter with those who carry out injustice.
Psalms 37:23Be attentive to my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.
Proverbs 16:1It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will order him against the people of my fury, so that he may take away the plunder, and tear apart the prey, and place it to be trampled like the mud of the streets.
Daniel 5:23But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been presented before you. And you, and your nobles, and your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. Likewise, you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, and brass, iron, and wood and stone, who neither see, nor hear, nor feel, yet you have not glorified the God who holds your breath and all your ways in his hand.
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 →