Proverbs 16:9
All the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
In Context
10There is an oracle upon the lips of a king; and his mouth shall not err in judgment.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7And destruction from God came upon Ochozias in his coming to Joram; for when he had come, Joram went out with him against Jeu the son of Namessei, the anointed of the Lord against the house of Achaab.
Proverbs 20:24A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.
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 →