Proverbs 16:33 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

The lot causeth contentions to cease, And parteth between the mighty.

Acts 1:26

And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

Jonah 1:7

And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the ruler's favour: But a man's judgement cometh from the LORD.

Nehemiah 11:1

And the princes of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

Joshua 18:10

And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

Joshua 18:5

And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.

Joshua 7:14

In the morning therefore ye shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come near by families; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come near by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come near man by man.

1 Samuel 10:19

but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saveth you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.

Proverbs 16:32

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

Leviticus 16:8

And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for Azazel.

Judges 20:9

But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up against it by lot;