King James Version
Proverbs 16:9 in the King James Version says “A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.”
Proverbs 16:9 · KJV
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. A divine: Heb. Divination
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work. the weights: Heb. the stones
KJV Study — Public Domain
“heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“deviseth”
H2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou
“his way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“but the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“directeth”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
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