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Proverbs 16:3

◄Request/Rely on► Yahweh to direct what you plan to do; if you do that, you will succeed in what you plan.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

In Context

2People may think that their actions are right, but Yahweh really knows why people do what they do.

4Yahweh knows why he does everything that he does; he has even prepared the wicked for the time that he will punish them.

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Cross References

Job 5:8“If I were suffering like you are, I would ask God for help and tell him ◄what I am complaining about/about my suffering►.

Psalms 37:4Be delighted with all that Yahweh does for you; if you do that, he will give you the things that you desire most.

Psalms 55:22Put your troubles in Yahweh’s hands, and he will take care of you; he will never allow righteous people to experience disasters.

Isaiah 7:5Yes, they are planning to attack this land and saying,

Luke 12:22Then Jesus said to his disciples, “So I want to tell you this: Do not worry about things you need in order to live. Do not worry about whether you will have enough food to eat or enough clothes to wear.

1 Peter 5:7Because he takes care of you, let him take care of all the things that you are worried/concerned about.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:3

2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves: All the ways of a man, all his designs, all his doings, are clean in his own eyes, and he sees nothing amiss in them, nothing for which to condemn himself, or which should make his projects prove otherwise than well; and therefore he is confident of success, and that the answer of the tongue shall be according to the expectations of the heart; but there is a great… Read the whole commentary →

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