Proverbs 20:24
Man's activities are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
25It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
Psalms 37:23The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
Proverbs 16:1The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, 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 in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you 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 →