Proverbs 20:24
Yahweh 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]
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Yahweh detests those who use dishonest scales and weights that are not accurate/correct.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Yahweh, show me the way that I should ◄conduct my life/live as you want me to►, teach me how to act in the manner that you want me to act/behave.
Psalms 37:23Yahweh protects those who do what is pleasing to him, and he will enable them to walk confidently, wherever they go;
Proverbs 16:1People plan what they want to do, but Yahweh is the one who decides [MTY] what really will happen.
Isaiah 10:6Sometimes I send the armies of Assyria to attack a godless nation, to fight against other people who have caused me to be angry. I send them to capture people and to seize and take away their possessions, and to trample them like [SIM] people walk on mud in the streets.
Daniel 5:23You have considered yourself to be greater than God, the Lord of heaven. So you have commanded your servants to bring to you these sacred cups, which were dedicated to the Supreme God, and which were taken from his temple in Jerusalem. You and your officials and your wives and your ◄concubines/slave wives► have been drinking wine from these cups, while you have been praising your own gods—gods which are made of gold and silver and bronze and iron and wood and stone. Those are gods that cannot see, that cannot hear, and that do not know anything! You have not honored the God who gives you breath and who controls everything that happens to you.
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 →