²⁴ A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

⁹ A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

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

⁴ Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

¹² If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

⁸ The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

²⁸ For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

²³ The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.

²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;