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

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.

⁹ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

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

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

⁴ Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.

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.

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:

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

⁶ I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷ Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.