Proverbs 20:24
The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.
25It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is hallowed, and after vows to make inquiry.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths.
Psalms 37:23The steps of a man are established by Jehovah, and he delighteth in his way:
Proverbs 16:1The purposes of the heart are of man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Daniel 5:23but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
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 →