Proverbs 20:24
A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors. 1
Isaiah 10:6I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.
Daniel 5:23And you have been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, and your nobles, and your mistresses, and your concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are your breath, and all your ways has you 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 →