24Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
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O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24)We are here taught that in all our affairs, 1. We have a necessary and constant dependence upon God. All our natural actions depend upon his providence, all our spiritual actions upon his grace. The best man is no better than God makes him; and every creature is that to us which it is the will of God that it should be. Our enterprises succeed, not as we desire and design, but as God directs and di…
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