Proverbs 20:24 · KJV
“Man's goings {are} of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?”
— Proverbs 20:24
Divers weights {are} an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance {is} not good. {a false...: Heb. balance of deceit}
{It is} a snare to the man {who} devoureth {that which is} holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Proverbs 20 — Context
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; {but} wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
23Divers weights {are} an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance {is} not good. {a false...: Heb. balance of deceit}
24Man's goings {are} of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
25{It is} a snare to the man {who} devoureth {that which is} holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Cross References
Jeremiah 10:23
O LORD, I know that the way of man {is} not in himself: {it is} not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Psalms 25:12
What man {is} he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way {that} he shall choose.
Psalms 37:23
The steps of a {good} man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. {ordered: or, established}
Psalms 25:4
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent {is} to understand his way: but the folly of fools {is} deceit.
Daniel 5:23
But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath {is}, and whose {are} all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.