Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.
Young's Literal Translation
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 abundance of increase without justice.
10An oath [is] on the lips of a king, In judgment his mouth trespasseth not.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7and from God hath been the destruction of Ahaziah, to come unto Joram: and in his coming he hath gone out with Jehoram unto Jehu son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1Of man [are] arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.
Proverbs 20:24From Jehovah [are] the steps of a man, And man — how understandeth he his way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 10:23I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man [is] his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.
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 →