“ Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? ”
The order of a man’s life is a mystery even to himself. He knows not where he is going, or for what God is educating him.
Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...
Man's . A strong man's. Hebrew. geber. App-14. man . an ordinary man. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14.
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? Man's goings are of the Lord - He, by his providence, governs all the great concerns of the world. Man often traverses these...
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? Man's (Hebrew, gaaber ( H1397 ): a mighty man's) goings (are) of the Lord. Whatever success attends mighty warri...
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Man’s goings are of the Lord. — Comp. Jeremiah 10:23 and the collect, “O God, from whom... all just works do proceed.” How can a man then understand his own way? — i.e. , how he should go. So...
CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...
“The Glory of Young Men” Proverbs 20:16-30 What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27 ! We stand like a row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine Nature e...
Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There i...
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; a...
Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? Ver. 24. Man's goings are of the Lord.] See Trapp on " Pro 16:1 " See Trapp on " Pro 16:9 " God brought Paul to Ro...
Man's goings are of the Lord All men's purposes and actions are so entirely subject to the control of God's overruling providence, and so liable to be frustrated or changed, as he shall see good, a...
24 Man's goings are of the L ORD ; how can a man then understand his own way? We are here taught that in all our affairs, 1. We have a necessary and constant dependence upon God. A...
Man's goings, all men's purposes and actions, are of the Lord; are ordered and overruled by God's wise and powerful providence to accomplish his own counsel and good pleasure, and not what men li...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:24 . Man . The first word, Geber , denoting a superior or mighty man : the second, Adam, man in general, or an ordinary man . MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:24...
Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Man’s goings are of the Lord: how can a man then understand his own way? Man’s goings I. The text in its negative bearings. 1. Appeal to Scripture ( Proverbs 16:9 ; Jeremiah 10:23 ). 2....
EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...
v. 24. Man's goings are of the Lord, he is dependent upon the Lord in all his actions, he is directed by the manner of God's disposal; how can a man, then, understand his own way? It is impossibl...
Acts 17:28 ; Daniel 5:23 ; Isaiah 10:6 ; Isaiah 10:7 ; Jeremiah 10:23 ; Proverbs 14:8 ; Proverbs 16:9 ; Psalms 25:12 ; Psalms 25:4 ; Psalms 37:23
His way — What the issue of his designs will be.