Jeremiah 10:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. [Ps. 37:23; Prov. 20:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Common English Bible

²³ I know, LORD, that our lives are not our own, that we’re not able to direct our paths.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not his own. Neither is it given to man to walk and to direct his own steps.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk and to direct his steps.

Jeremiah 10:23 Cross References

Psalm 17:5

My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.

Psalm 37:23

The steps of a man are from the Lord, and he establishes him in whose way he delights;

Proverbs 16:1

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

Proverbs 16:9

A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

A man's steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can man understand his way?

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

Daniel 5:23

but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them; and 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 hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.