Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth firmly his steps.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
In Context
8Better is a little with righteousness, than great incomes through injustice.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7But from God was the confusion of Achazyahu that he should come to Joram: and when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off the house of Achab.
Proverbs 16:1Unto man belong the resolves of the heart; but from the Lord cometh the expression of the tongue.
Proverbs 20:24From the Lord are the steps of man [ordained]; but man— how can he understand his own way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in his own power: it is not in man that passeth away to direct 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 →