Proverbs 20:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

All our steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can we understand our own ways?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Man's goings are of the LORD; How can a man then understand his own way?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Man's steps are ordered by the Lord. How then can a man understand his way?

American Standard Version (1901)

A man’s goings are of Jehovah; How then can man understand his way?

Common English Bible

A person’s steps are from the LORD; how then can people understand their path?

Catholic Public Domain Version

The steps of men are directed by the Lord. But who is the man able to understand his own way?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 20:24 Cross References

Psalm 25:12

Who are they who fear the Lord? He will teach them the way that they should choose.

Psalm 25:4

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.

Psalm 37:23

Our steps are made firm by the Lord when he delights in our way;

Proverbs 14:8

It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go, but the folly of fools misleads.

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Proverbs 16:9

The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.

Jeremiah 10:23

I know, O Lord, that the way of humans is not in their control, that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps.

Daniel 5:23

You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.

Acts 17:28

For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we, too, are his offspring.’