Proverbs 20:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
  • Jer 10:23 : 23 O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.
  • Ps 25:4 : 4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
  • Prov 14:8 : 8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
  • Ps 37:23 : 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

    23 O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

    24 O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

  • Prov 5:21
    81%

    21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

  • Prov 16:9
    79%

    9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

  • Job 34:21
    78%

    21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

  • Ps 37:23
    76%

    23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.

  • Prov 21:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

    2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Prov 19:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

    3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Prov 14:12
    74%

    12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

    2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

    3 Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

  • Job 28:23
    73%

    23 God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

  • Prov 21:8
    73%

    8 Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

  • Prov 3:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

    6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

  • Prov 4:26
    72%

    26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

  • Prov 16:25
    72%

    25 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Eccl 8:7
    72%

    7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Prov 5:6
    72%

    6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Job 38:20
    72%

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • Ps 17:5
    71%

    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • Hos 14:9
    71%

    9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

  • Prov 15:24
    71%

    24 Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

  • Prov 19:21
    71%

    21 A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

  • Ps 144:4
    71%

    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 77:19
    71%

    19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

  • Prov 20:23
    71%

    23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

  • Prov 10:9
    71%

    9 He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • Ps 94:11
    71%

    11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

  • Prov 2:20
    70%

    20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 21:16
    70%

    16 The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

  • Job 24:23
    70%

    23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

  • Eccl 6:12
    70%

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 7:24
    70%

    24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

  • Prov 24:12
    70%

    12 If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

  • Prov 20:25
    70%

    25 It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.

  • Job 34:11
    70%

    11 For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

  • Job 20:4
    70%

    4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Prov 14:8
    70%

    8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

  • Job 18:7
    70%

    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • Prov 2:9
    70%

    9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

  • Prov 20:11
    70%

    11 Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

  • Eccl 9:1
    70%

    1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

  • Eccl 3:21
    69%

    21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

  • Job 28:20
    69%

    20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?