Proverbs 20:25
It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
In Context
24The steps of man are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?
26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.
Cross References
Leviticus 5:15If any one shall sin through mistake, transgressing the ceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall offer for his offence a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may be bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary:
Leviticus 27:9But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if ally one shall vow, shall be holy,
Numbers 30:2And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:
Deuteronomy 23:23But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.
Judges 21:22And when their fathers and their brethren shall come, and shall begin to complain against you, and to chide, we will say to them: Have pity on them for they took them not away as by the right of war or conquest, but when they asked to have them, you gave them not, and the fault was committed on your part.
Ecclesiastes 5:2Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:25
24 Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way? We are here taught that in all our affairs, 1. We have a necessary and constant dependence upon God. All our natural actions depend upon his providence, all our spiritual actions upon his grace. The best man is no better than God makes him; and every creature is that to us which it is the will of God that it should be. Our enterprises succeed, not as we desire and design, but as God directs and disposes. The goings even of a strong man… Read the whole commentary →