Proverbs 20:24
A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
25It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
Psalms 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
Proverbs 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:24
23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord ; and a false balance is not good. This is to the same purport with what was said v. 20 . 1. It is here repeated, because it is a sin that God doubly hates (as lying, which is of the same nature with this sin, is mentioned twice among the seven things that God hates, ch. vi. 17 , 19 ), and because it was probably a sin very much practised at that time in Israel, and therefore made light of as if there were no harm in it, under pretence that, being commonly used,… Read the whole commentary →