Proverbs 20:24
The steps of man are ruled by the Lord: how can a man then vnderstand his owne way?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Diuers weightes are an abomination vnto the Lord, and deceitful balances are not good.
25It is a destruction for a man to deuoure that which is sanctified, and after the vowes to inquire.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Shew me thy waies, O Lord, and teache me thy paths.
Psalms 37:23The pathes of man are directed by the Lord: for he loueth his way.
Proverbs 16:1The preparations of the heart are in man: but the answere of the tongue is of the Lord.
Isaiah 10:6I will sende him to a dissembling nation, and I will giue him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoyle and to take the pray, and to treade them vnder feete like the mire in the streete.
Daniel 5:23But hast lift thy selfe vp against the Lord of heauen, and they haue brought the vessels of his House before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wiues and thy concubines haue drunke wine in them, and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse, yron, wood and stone, which neither see, neither heare, nor vnderstand: and the God in whose hand thy breath is and all thy wayes, him 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 →