Proverbs 20:24

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 23"God understands its way, And he knows its place.

  • 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 direct your paths.

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

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

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

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

  • 20That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it?

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

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

  • 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?

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

  • 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 20Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?