Proverbs 16:3
Commit unto the Lord thy works, and thy plans will be firmly established.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
In Context
2Every one of the ways of a man is pure in his own eyes; but the Lord measureth the spirits.
Cross References
Job 5:8I, however, would have besought God, and unto God would I have committed my cause;
Psalms 37:4And delight thyself in the Lord, and he will give thee the wishes of thy heart.
Psalms 55:22(55:23) Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Isaiah 7:5Forasmuch as Syria, [with] Ephraim and the son of Remalyahu, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:3
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves: All the ways of a man, all his designs, all his doings, are clean in his own eyes, and he sees nothing amiss in them, nothing for which to condemn himself, or which should make his projects prove otherwise than well; and therefore he is confident of success, and that the answer of the tongue shall be according to the expectations of the heart; but there is a great… Read the whole commentary →