Proverbs 20:24 Cross References - LEB

²⁴ Away from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?

⁴ Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

¹² Who is the man fearing Yahweh? He will instruct him in the way he should choose.

²³ The steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way.

⁸ The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.

⁹ The _⌊mind_⌋* of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.

⁶ I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them* a trampling place, like the clay of the streets. ⁷ But he does not think this,* and his heart does not plan this. For it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.

²³ I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way, nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step.

²³ And now you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords,* your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from* them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone* that do not see and do not hear and do not know, but the God _⌊who holds your life in his hand_⌋* and all of your ways _⌊come from him_⌋,* you have not honored.

²⁸ for in him we live and move and exist,* as even some of _⌊your own_⌋* poets have said: 'For we also are _⌊his_⌋* offspring.'*