Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man deviseth his way, but Jehovah directeth his steps.
Darby Translation
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 revenues without right.
10An oracle is on the lips of the king: his mouth will not err in judgment.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7But his coming to Joram was from God the complete ruin of Ahaziah. And when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1The purposes of the heart are of man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:24The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct 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 →