Proverbs 16:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³³ The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is the Lord’s alone.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ The lot is cast into the lap; But the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly of the Lord [even the events that seem accidental are really ordered by Him].

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ The lot is cast into the lap; But the whole disposing thereof is of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³³ The dice are cast into the lap; all decisions are from the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ Lots are cast into the lap, but they are tempered by the Lord.

Proverbs 16:33 Cross References

Proverbs 18:18

Casting the lot puts an end to disputes and decides between powerful contenders.

Acts 1:26

And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Jonah 1:7

The sailors said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, so that we may know on whose account this calamity has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the favor of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.

Nehemiah 11:1

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city Jerusalem, while nine-tenths remained in the other towns.

Joshua 18:10

and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua apportioned the land to the Israelites, to each a portion.

Joshua 18:5

They shall divide it into seven portions, Judah continuing in its territory on the south and the house of Joseph in their territory on the north.

Joshua 7:14

In the morning, therefore, you shall come forward tribe by tribe. The tribe that the Lord takes shall come near by clans, the clan that the Lord takes shall come near by households, and the household that the Lord takes shall come near one by one.

1 Samuel 10:19

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said, ‘No, but set a king over us.’ Now, therefore, present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your clans.”

Proverbs 16:32

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the fork in the two roads, to use divination; he shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he inspects the liver.

Leviticus 16:8

and Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel.

Judges 20:9

But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot.