Proverbs 16:3
Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
In Context
2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Jehovah weigheth the spirits.
4Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Cross References
Job 5:8But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
Psalms 37:4and delight thyself in Jehovah, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.
Psalms 55:22Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and *he* will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Isaiah 7:5Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim [also] and the son of Remaliah, saying,
Luke 12:22And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.
1 Peter 5:7having cast all your care upon him, for he cares about you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:3
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves: All the ways of a man, all his designs, all his doings, are clean in his own eyes, and he sees nothing amiss in them, nothing for which to condemn himself, or which should make his projects prove otherwise than well; and therefore he is confident of success, and that the answer of the tongue shall be according to the expectations of the heart; but there is a great… Read the whole commentary →