Proverbs 20:24
The steps of a man [are] from YHWH, || And man—how does he understand his way?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23A stone and a stone [are] an abomination to YHWH, || And balances of deceit [are] not good.
25A snare to a man [that] he has swallowed a holy thing, || And to make inquiry after vows.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Your ways, O YHWH, cause me to know, || You teach me Your paths.
Psalms 37:23The steps of a man [are] from YHWH, || They have been prepared, || And He desires his way.
Proverbs 16:1Arrangements of the heart [are] of man, || An answer of the tongue from YHWH.
Isaiah 10:6I send him against a profane nation, || And concerning a people of My wrath || I charge him, || To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, || And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.
Daniel 5:23and against the Lord of the heavens you have lifted up yourself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before you, and you, and your great men, your wives, and your concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, you have praised: and the God in whose hand [is] your breath, and all your ways, Him you have not honored.
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 →