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Chapter 16

Plans are made in human hearts,
    but from the Lord comes the tongue’s response.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 16:1 Words, like actions, often produce results different from those which were planned, and this comes under the agency of God.

16 The plans of the mind belong to mortals,
    but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

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16 We may make our plans, but God has the last word.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:1 God … word; or God inspires our words.

Contrast of the Upright and the Wicked

16 The (A)plans of the heart belong to a person,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

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16 To humans belong the plans of the heart,
    but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.(A)

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