Proverbs 20:24
The steps of a gever are from Hashem; 1 how can an adam then understand his own derech (way, lifeʼs course)? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Differing weights are a to'evah unto Hashem, 1 and scales of mirmah (deceit) are not tov. 1
Cross References
Psalms 25:4[Dalet] Show me Thy ways, Hashem; 1 teach me Thy paths. 1
Psalms 37:23The steps of a gever (man) konanu (are ordered, made firm) by Hashem 1 and He delighteth in his derech. 1
Proverbs 16:1The plans of the lev belong to adam, 1 and the answer of the lashon is from Hashem. 1
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a Goy Chanef, 1 and against the people of My wrath will I give him a charge, 1 to take the spoil, and to take the plunder, 1 and to tread them down like the chomer chutzot (mire of the streets). 1
Daniel 5:23But hast lifted up thyself against Hashem of Shomayim; and they have brought the vessels of His Beis Hamikdash before thee, and thou, and thy nobles, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the g-ds of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the G-d in Whose hand thy breath 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 →