Jeremiah 10:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Jeremiah 10:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 20:24
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Proverbs 16:1
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Psalms 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalms 119:116-117
Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. …
Psalms 17:5
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-25)

In these verses, I. The prophet threatens, in God’s name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer. 10:17, 18. The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into captivity, were very secure; they thought themselves inhabitants of a fortress; their country was their strong hold, and, in their own conceit, impregnable; but they are here told to think of leaving it: they…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. Despairing of influencing the people, he turns to God. way of man not in himself--(Pr 16:1; 20:24; Jas 4:13, 14). I know, O Jehovah, that the march of the Babylonian conqueror against me (Jeremiah identifying himself with his people) is not at his own discretion, but is overruled by Thee (Is 10:5-7; compare Jr 10:19). that walketh--when he walketh, that is, sets out in any undertaking. direct…