Proverbs 20:24 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 20:24: 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 20:24: Man's goings are of the Lord,.... In a natural and literal sense, the instruments of going are of the Lord; the act of motion from place to place is not without the concourse of his providence; as in him we live, and move, and have our being, so "in and by him we move"; he preserves our going out and coming in; and as the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 20:24: Man's goings--literally, "Stately steppings of a strong man." a man--any common man. understand--or, "perceive."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:24: Pro 20:24 24 The steps of a man depend on Jahve; And a man - how can he understand his way? Line first is from Psa 37:23, but there, where the clause has the verbal predicate כּוננוּ, the meaning is that it is the gracious assistance of God, by virtue of which a man takes certain steps with his feet, while here we have before...