Proverbs 20:24
A man's steps are from the Lord;how then can man understand his way?
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23The Lord detests differing weights,and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
25It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,then later to consider his vows.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Show me your ways, Lord.Teach me your paths.HEY
Psalms 37:23A man's goings are established by the Lord.He delights in his way.
Proverbs 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man,but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Daniel 5:23but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have 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 →