Jeremiah 10:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

More versions

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

A man's goings are established of the LORD; And he delighteth in his way.

Proverbs 16:1

The preparations of the heart belong to man: But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

Proverbs 16:9

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

Proverbs 20:24

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

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art up right dost direct the path of the just.

Daniel 5:23

but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: