Proverbs 20:24

Foolproof Instructions

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Differing weights are detestable and offensive to the Lord,
And fraudulent scales are not good.
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Man’s steps are ordered and ordained by the Lord.
How then can a man [fully] understand his way?
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It is a trap for a man to [speak a vow of consecration and] say rashly, “It is holy!”
And [not until] afterward consider [whether he can fulfill it].

From the Lord

It is the Lord

Jehovah

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s mind plans his way [as he journeys through life],
But the Lord directs his steps and establishes them.

Jeremiah 10:23

O Lord, I know that the path of [life of] a man is not in himself;
It is not within [the limited ability of] man [even one at his best] to choose and direct his steps [in life].

Psalm 25:4

Let me know Your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.

Psalm 25:12

Who is the man who fears the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence and worships Him with submissive wonder]?
He will teach him [through His word] in the way he should choose.

Psalm 37:23

The steps of a [good and righteous] man are directed and established by the Lord,
And He delights in his way [and blesses his path].

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,
But the foolishness of [shortsighted] fools is deceit.

Isaiah 10:6-7

I send Assyria against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My wrath
To take the spoil and to seize the plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Daniel 5:23

And you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of His house have been brought before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But the God who holds in His hand your breath of life and your ways you have not honored and glorified [but have dishonored and defied].

Acts 17:28

For in Him we live and move and exist [that is, in Him we actually have our being], as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’