Proverbs 20:24
From the Lord are the steps of man [ordained]; but man— how can he understand his own way?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Divers weights are an abomination of the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good.
25It is a snare to a man to sanctify things hastily, and to make inquiry only after having made vows.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Show me, O Lord, thy ways; teach me thy paths.
Psalms 37:23By the Lord are the steps of the righteous man established; and he findeth pleasure in his course [of life].
Proverbs 16:1Unto man belong the resolves of the heart; but from the Lord cometh the expression of the tongue.
Isaiah 10:6Against a hypocritical nation will I send him, and against the people of my fury will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to carry off the prey, and to render them trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Daniel 5:23But against the Lord of heaven hast thou lifted thyself up; and the vessels of his house have they brought before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and the gods of silver, and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor know, hast thou praised; and the God in whose hand thy soul is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
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 →