Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:24

The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures

The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.

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24 A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

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Verse 24

Original words

A man’s גָ֑בֶר H1397 Noun - masculine singular steps מִצְעֲדֵי־ H4703 Noun - masculine plural construct [are] from the LORD מֵיהוָ֥ה H3068 Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular so how מַה־ H4100 Interrogative can anyone וְ֝אָדָ֗ם H120 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular understand יָּבִ֥ין H995 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular his own way דַּרְכּֽוֹ׃ H1870 Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular

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