Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart plans his course,but the Lord directs his steps.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
In Context
8Better is a little with righteousness,than great revenues with injustice.
10Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king.He shall not betray his mouth.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man,but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Proverbs 20:24A man's steps are from the Lord;how then can man understand his way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understandingnor counsel against the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:23Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
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 →