Proverbs 20:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

A man's steps are of the LORD; how then can a man understand his own way?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.
  • Jer 10:23 : 23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
  • Ps 25:4 : 4 Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.
  • Prov 14:8 : 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said, For we are His offspring.
  • Ps 37:23 : 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and he delights in his way.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

    23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

    24O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • Prov 5:21
    81%

    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his paths.

  • Prov 16:9
    79%

    9A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

  • Job 34:21
    78%

    21For His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He sees all his goings.

  • Ps 37:23
    76%

    23The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and he delights in his way.

  • Prov 21:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wills.

    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.

  • Prov 19:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Also, for the soul to be without knowledge is not good; and he who hurries with his feet sins.

    3The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

  • Prov 14:12
    74%

    12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the LORD.

    2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

    3Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.

  • Job 28:23
    73%

    23God understands its way, and he knows its place.

  • Prov 21:8
    73%

    8The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • Prov 3:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and do not lean on your own understanding.

    6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.

  • Prov 4:26
    72%

    26Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

  • Prov 16:25
    72%

    25There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end are the ways of death.

  • Eccl 8:7
    72%

    7For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Prov 5:6
    72%

    6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

  • Job 38:20
    72%

    20That you may take it to its boundary, and that you may discern the paths to its home?

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Ps 17:5
    71%

    5Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

  • Hos 14:9
    71%

    9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

  • Prov 15:24
    71%

    24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • Prov 19:21
    71%

    21There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

  • Ps 144:4
    71%

    4Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

  • Ps 77:19
    71%

    19Your way is in the sea, and Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps are not known.

  • Prov 20:23
    71%

    23Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false balance is not good.

  • Prov 10:9
    71%

    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • Ps 94:11
    71%

    11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

  • Prov 2:20
    70%

    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 21:16
    70%

    16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

  • Job 24:23
    70%

    23Though it be given him to be in safety, on which he rests, yet his eyes are on their ways.

  • Eccl 6:12
    70%

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 7:24
    70%

    24That which is far off and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

  • Prov 24:12
    70%

    12If you say, Behold, we did not know this; does not he who ponders the heart consider it? And he who keeps your soul, does he not know it? And shall he not render to every man according to his works?

  • Prov 20:25
    70%

    25It is a snare for a man to devour what is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.

  • Job 34:11
    70%

    11For the work of a man shall He repay him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

  • Job 20:4
    70%

    4Do you not know this of old, since man was placed on earth,

  • Prov 14:8
    70%

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Job 18:7
    70%

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Prov 2:9
    70%

    9Then you will understand righteousness and judgment and equity; yes, every good path.

  • Prov 20:11
    70%

    11Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure and right.

  • Eccl 9:1
    70%

    1For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Eccl 3:21
    69%

    21Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

  • Job 28:20
    69%

    20From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?