Proverbs 20:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?”
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“A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?”
King James Version · Public Domain“A man’s goings are of Jehovah; How then can man understand his way?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“From Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> the steps of a man, And man--how understandeth he his way?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 20:24 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
- Psalms 25:12Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
- Psalms 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
- Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.
- Proverbs 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
- Proverbs 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
- Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- Jeremiah 10:23I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
- Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
- Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
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