Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man devises his way, || And YHWH establishes his step.
Literal Standard Version
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 abundance of increase without justice.
10An oath [is] on the lips of a king, || In judgment his mouth does not trespass.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7and to come to Joram has been from God [for] the destruction of Ahaziah; and in his coming he has gone out with Jehoram to Jehu son of Nimshi, whom YHWH anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1Arrangements of the heart [are] of man, || An answer of the tongue from YHWH.
Proverbs 20:24The steps of a man [are] from YHWH, || And man—how does he understand his way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, || Nor counsel against YHWH.
Jeremiah 10:23I have known, O YHWH, that not of man [is] his way, || Not of man [is] the going and establishing of his step.
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 →