Proverbs 16:33
Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the Lord.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 26:55Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.
Joshua 18:5Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.
Judges 20:9But this we will do in common against Gabaa:
1 Samuel 14:42And Saul said: Cast lots between me, and Jonathan, my son. And Jonathan was taken. Jonathan was taken... Though Jonathan was excused from sin, through ignorance of the prohibition, yet God was pleased on this occasion to let the lot fall upon him, to shew unto all the great obligation of obedience to princes and parents.
Proverbs 18:18The lot suppresseth contentions, and determineth even between the mighty.
Jonah 1:7And they said every one to his fellow: Come and let us cast lots, that we may know why this evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:33
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. This recommends the grace of meekness to us, which will well become us all, particularly the hoary head, v. 31 . Observe, 1. The nature of it. It is to be slow to anger, not easily put into a passion, nor apt to resent provocation, taking time to consider before we suffer our passion to break out, that it may not transgress due bounds, so slow in our motions towards anger that we may be quickly stopped… Read the whole commentary →