Proverbs 20:24
Good News Translation
The LORD has determined our path; how then can anyone understand the direction his own life is taking?

New Revised Standard Version
All our steps are ordered by the LORD; how then can we understand our own ways?

Contemporary English Version
How can we know what will happen to us when the LORD alone decides?

New American Bible
Our steps are from the LORD; how, then, can mortals understand their way?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

man's

Psalm 37:23 With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way.

Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

Daniel 5:23 But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.

Acts 17:28 For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.

how

Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.

Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his steps.

Psalm 25:4,12 Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths. . . .

Isaiah 10:6,7 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. . . .

Context
Wine is a Mocker
23Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good. 24The steps of men are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?25It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.…
Cross References
Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his steps.

Jeremiah 10:23
I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

Daniel 5:23
But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.

Proverbs 20:23
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