Proverbs 20:24

In 11 translations

BSB

A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

KJV

Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

WEB

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

ASV

A man’s goings are of Jehovah; How then can man understand his way?

LSV

The steps of a man [are] from YHWH, || And man—how does he understand his way?

YLT

From Jehovah [are] the steps of a man, And man — how understandeth he his way?

DBY

The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?

DRC

The steps of man are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?

GNV

The steps of man are ruled by the Lord: how can a man then vnderstand his owne way?

JPS

A man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man look to his way?

LXXE

A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways?

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Original-language editions

WLC

מֵיהוָ֥ה מִצְעֲדֵי־גָ֑בֶר וְ֝אָדָ֗ם מַה־יָּבִ֥ין דַּרְכּֽוֹ׃Marks a place where we agree with BHQ against BHS in reading L.Marks an anomalous form.We read one or more vowels in L differently from BHS.

LXX-Br

Παρὰ Κυρίου εὐθύνεται τὰ διαβήματα ἀνδρὶ, θνητὸς δὲ πῶς ἂν νοήσαι τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
• Jeremiah 10:23I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
• Psalms 25:12Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
• Psalms 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
• Psalms 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
• Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.
• Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver…
• Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
• Isaiah 10:6–7I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. But this is not his intention;…

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