Jeremiah Chapter 10 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 10:23

O Jehovah, 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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BBE Jeremiah 10:23

O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.
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DARBY Jeremiah 10:23

I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
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KJV Jeremiah 10:23

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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WBT Jeremiah 10:23


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WEB Jeremiah 10:23

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
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YLT Jeremiah 10:23

I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man `is' his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.
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Jeremiah 10 : 23 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 23-25. - These verses confirm the view taken above, of the speaker of this whole section. Jeremiah and the people, each is, in a sense, the speaker; but here the prophetic faith seems to run rather in advance of that of his fellow-countrymen. They form, however, a fitting sequel to the charges brought against the people in Jeremiah 9. The speaker admits that he (either the People of Judah personified, or Jeremiah as a representative of its best portion) fully deserves chastisement for having attempted to go his own way (comp. Isaiah 57:17). He has now attained an insight into the truth that man's duty is simply to walk in the path which God has marked out for him. He only asks that Jehovah would chastise him with judgment, or,, more clearly, according to what is just. The contrast is between punishment inflicted in anger, the object of which is to cause pain to the criminal, and that inflicted as a duty of justice, and of which the object is the criminal's reformation" (Payne Smith). The fear expressed, however, is not exactly lest thou bring me to nothing, which is too strong for the Hebrew, but lest thou make me small. Israel was secured against annihilation by the promise of Jehovah, but feared he might possibly survive only as the shadow of his former self.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) O Lord, I know . . .--The confession is made not by the prophet for himself, but as by and for Israel.The way of man.--The path which a man takes for good or evil, for failure or success. His conduct in life depends, the prophet says, on something more than his own choice :--"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will."Compare Proverbs 16:9; Proverbs 20:24, as expressing the same thought of the necessity of divine guidance. The two Hebrew words for "man" are used in the two clauses, the first expressing the weakness, the latter the strength of men. Even the strong man has to confess that he needs a hand other than his own to direct his steps.