23I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.


In Context

20 My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my children are gone out from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

21 Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not sought the Lord: therefore have they not understood, and all their flock is scattered.

22 Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling for dragons.

23 I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

24 Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgement: and not in fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.

25 Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

Jeremiah 10:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:23I know, O Lord , that a man's life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:23O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:23I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man is his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.