Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
King James Version
In Context
8Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:7And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
Proverbs 16:1The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Proverbs 20:24Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Jeremiah 10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:9
8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. Here, 1. It is supposed that an honest good man may have but a little of the wealth of this world (all the righteous are not rich),—that a man may have but little, and yet may be honest (though poverty is a temptation to dishonesty, ch. xxx. 9 , yet not an invincible one),—and that a man may grow rich, for a while, by fraud and oppression, may have great revenues, and those got and kept without right, may have no good title to them nor make… Read the whole commentary →