Proverbs 16:3 (BSB)

Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

From Proverbs 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 16:3

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 16:3: Note, 1. It is a very desirable thing to have our thoughts established, and not tossed, and put into a hurry, by disquieting cares and fears, - to go on in an even steady course of honesty and piety, not disturbed, or put out of frame, by any event or change, - to be satisfied that all shall work for good and issue well at...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 16:3: Commit thy works unto the Lord,.... Natural, civil, or religious; seek to him for strength and assistance in all, and leave the success of all with him: or "roll thy works on" or "unto the Lord" (b); devolve all upon him, cast all care upon him and his providence for supply, support, and sustenance in life; and commit the business of the salvation of thy...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 16:3: (Compare Margin). Rely on God for success to your lawful purposes.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 16:3: Pro 16:3 3 Roll on Jahve thy works, So thy thoughts shall prosper. The proverbs Pro 16:1-3 are wanting in the lxx; their absence is compensated for by three others, but only externally, not according to their worth. Instead of גּל, the Syr., Targ., and Jerome read גּל, revela, with which the על, Psa 37:5, cf.