Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
In Context
8Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
10A divine verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth must not betray justice.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
Proverbs 20:24A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own 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 →