Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his steps.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 great revenues with iniquity.
10Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7For it was the will of God against Ochozias that he should come to Joram: and when he was come should go out also against Jehu the son of Namsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Achab.
Proverbs 16:1It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue.
Proverbs 20:24The steps of man are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and 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 →