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Proverbs 20:24
Proverbs 20:24 is verse 24 of Proverbs chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
King James Version
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
World English Bible
A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
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Proverbs 20:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible
22 Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.
23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
24 A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
25 It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.
26 A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
Jeremiah 10:23I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
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 and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
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.’
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.
Proverbs 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Psalms 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
Psalms 25:12Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
Isaiah 10:6I 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.
Isaiah 10:7But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.