Proverbs 16:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ A man's heart deviseth his way: But the LORD directeth his steps.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure. [Ps. 37:23; Prov. 20:24; Jer. 10:23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ A man’s heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth his steps.

Common English Bible

⁹ People plan their path, but the LORD secures their steps.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The heart of man disposes his way. But it is for Lord to direct his steps.

Proverbs 16:9 Cross References

Proverbs 19:21

The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.

Psalm 37:23

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

Proverbs 16:1

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

Proverbs 20:24

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

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.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the outcome from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice.

1 Samuel 9:16

“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines, for I have seen the suffering of my people, because their outcry has come to me.”

2 Chronicles 22:7

But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.