Proverbs 20:24

World English Bible (2000)

A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
  • Jer 10:23 : 23 Yahweh, 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, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
  • Prov 14:8 : 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about 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 some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
  • Ps 37:23 : 23 A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and 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, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

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

    24Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • Prov 5:21
    81%

    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

  • Prov 16:9
    79%

    9A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

  • Job 34:21
    78%

    21"For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

  • Ps 37:23
    76%

    23A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

  • Prov 21:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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

  • Prov 19:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 14:12
    74%

    12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

    2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

    3Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

  • Job 28:23
    73%

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

  • Prov 21:8
    73%

    8The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

  • Prov 3:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

    6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

  • Prov 4:26
    72%

    26Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

  • Prov 16:25
    72%

    25There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • Eccl 8:7
    72%

    7For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

  • Prov 5:6
    72%

    6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Job 38:20
    72%

    20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • Ps 17:5
    71%

    5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

  • Hos 14:9
    71%

    9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

  • Prov 15:24
    71%

    24The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 19:21
    71%

    21There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

  • Ps 144:4
    71%

    4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Ps 77:19
    71%

    19Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

  • Prov 20:23
    71%

    23Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

  • Prov 10:9
    71%

    9He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

  • Ps 94:11
    71%

    11Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

  • 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 rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Job 24:23
    70%

    23God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

  • Eccl 6:12
    70%

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

  • Eccl 7:24
    70%

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

  • Prov 24:12
    70%

    12If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

  • Prov 20:25
    70%

    25It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

  • Job 34:11
    70%

    11For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

  • Job 20:4
    70%

    4Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

  • Prov 14:8
    70%

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

  • Job 18:7
    70%

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

  • Prov 2:9
    70%

    9Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

  • Prov 20:11
    70%

    11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

  • Eccl 9:1
    70%

    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

  • Eccl 3:21
    69%

    21Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

  • Job 28:20
    69%

    20Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?