Proverbs 16:3
Commit your works to Yahweh 1 and your plans will succeed. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
In Context
2All of a person's ways are pure in his own eyes, 1 but Yahweh weighs the spirits. 1
4Yahweh has made everything for its purpose, 1 even the wicked for the day of trouble. 1
Cross References
Job 5:8But as for me, I would turn to God himself; 1 to him I would commit my cause— 1
Psalms 37:4Then delight yourself in Yahweh, 1 and he will give you the desires of your heart. 1
Psalms 55:22Place your burdens on Yahweh, and he will sustain you; 1 he will never allow a righteous person to totter. 1
Isaiah 7:5Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have planned evil against you; they have said,
Luke 12:22Jesus said to his disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat—or about your body, what you will wear.
1 Peter 5:7Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.
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 →