Proverbs 20:24
From Jehovah [are] the steps of a man, And man — how understandeth he his way?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
In Context
23An abomination to Jehovah [are] a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit [are] not good.
25A snare to a man [is] he hath swallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry.
Cross References
Psalms 25:4Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.
Psalms 37:23From Jehovah [are] the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.
Proverbs 16:1Of man [are] arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.
Isaiah 10:6Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.
Daniel 5:23and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand [is] thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.
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 →