Proverbs 16:9
The lev adam plans his derech, 1 but Hashem directeth his steps. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 tzedakah 1 than great revenues without mishpat (justice). 1
10A kesem (oracle) is on the sfatayim (lips) of Melech, 1 his peh (mouth) must not betray mishpat. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7And the tevusat Achazyahu (downfall of Ahaziah) was of Elohim in coming to Yoram, for when he arrived, he went out with Yehoram against Yehu ben Nimshi, whom Hashem had anointed to cut off the Bais Ach'av (the House of Ahab).
Proverbs 16:1The plans of the lev belong to adam, 1 and the answer of the lashon is from Hashem. 1
Proverbs 20:24The steps of a gever are from Hashem; 1 how can an adam then understand his own derech (way, lifeʼs course)? 1
Proverbs 21:30There is no chochmah nor tevunah (understanding) 1 nor etzah against Hashem. 1
Jeremiah 10:23Hashem, I know that the derech of adam (man) is not in himself; 1 it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 1
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 →