Proverbs 16:9
People plan what they want to do, but Yahweh directs/determines what they will really be able to do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
In Context
10If God directs what a king says, what he decides is always right/fair.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7It was during that visit that God caused Ahaziah to die. When Ahaziah arrived, he went with Joram to meet Jehu, the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had appointed to kill all the descendants of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1People plan what they want to do, but Yahweh is the one who decides [MTY] what really will happen.
Proverbs 20:24Yahweh is the one who has decided what will happen to us, so ◄how can we <understand/know> what will happen before it happens?/we humans certainly cannot <understand/know> what will happen before it happens.► [RHQ]
Proverbs 21:30Thinking that we are wise, and that we understand many things, and that we have good insight, does not help us if Yahweh is ◄acting against/not pleased with► us.
Jeremiah 10:23Yahweh, I know that no person controls what will happen to him; no one is able to direct the events that he will experience.
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 →