Proverbs 16:9
A man deuiseth a way in his heart: but it is the Lorde that ordereth his goynges.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
In Context
8Better it is to haue a litle with ryghteousnesse, then great rentes wrongfully gotten.
10When the prophecie is in the lippes of the kyng, his mouth shall not go wrong in iudgement.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:1A man may wel purpose a thyng in his heart: but the aunswere of the tongue commeth of the Lorde.
Proverbs 20:24The Lord ordereth euery mans goinges: how can a man then vnderstand his owne way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wysdome, there is no vnderstanding, there is no counsayle against the Lorde.
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 →