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24 The Lord directs our steps,
    so why try to understand everything along the way?

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24 A person’s steps are directed(A) by the Lord.(B)
    How then can anyone understand their own way?(C)

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24 Man's goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

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We can make our plans,
    but the Lord determines our steps.

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In their hearts humans plan their course,
    but the Lord establishes their steps.(A)

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A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

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Jeremiah’s Prayer

23 I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own.
    We are not able to plan our own course.

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Jeremiah’s Prayer

23 Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own;
    it is not for them to direct their steps.(A)

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23 O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

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12 Who are those who fear the Lord?
    He will show them the path they should choose.

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12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?(A)
    He will instruct them in the ways(B) they should choose.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 25:12 Or ways he chooses

12 What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

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23 The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
    He delights in every detail of their lives.

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23 The Lord makes firm the steps(A)
    of the one who delights(B) in him;

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23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

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Show me the right path, O Lord;
    point out the road for me to follow.

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Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.(A)

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Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.

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28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your[a] own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

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  1. 17:28 Some manuscripts read our.

28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a](A) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:28 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides
  2. Acts 17:28 From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus

28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

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23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!

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23 Instead, you have set yourself up against(A) the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives(B) and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.(C) But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life(D) and all your ways.(E)

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23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

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The prudent understand where they are going,
    but fools deceive themselves.

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The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways,(A)
    but the folly of fools is deception.(B)

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The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

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