Focused Passage

Proverbs 16:25

The LORD Weighs the Heart: Sovereignty, Humility, Justice, and the Wise Path

The chapter moves from the LORD's sovereignty over plans and motives, to justice in royal rule, to the superiority of wisdom and humility, to gracious speech and the warning against self-deceived paths, to destructive speech and violent companionship, and finally to patience, self-control, and the LORD's final governance.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

25There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

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Verse 25

Original words

There isיֵ֤שׁH3426Adverba wayדֶּ֣רֶךְH1870Noun - common singularthat seems rightיָ֭שָׁרH3477Adjective - masculine singulartoלִפְנֵי־H6440Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural constructa manאִ֑ישׁH376Noun - masculine singularbut its endוְ֝אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּH319Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singularis the wayדַּרְכֵי־H1870Noun - common plural constructof deathמָֽוֶת׃H4194Noun - masculine singular

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