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21 The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses.
    He turns it wherever he desires.

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21 The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord;
    he guides it wherever he pleases.

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21 Streams of water are the heart[a] of a king in the hand of Yahweh;
    wherever[b] he will desire, he will turn.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:1 Or “mind”
  2. Proverbs 21:1 Literally “upon all that”

21 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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21 In the Lord’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water
    that he channels toward all who please him.(A)

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