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


In Context

20 My tent hath been spoiled, And all my cords have been broken, My sons have gone out from me, and they are not, There is none stretching out any more my tent, And raising up my curtains.

21 For the shepherds have become brutish, And Jehovah they have not sought, Therefore they have not acted wisely, And all their flock is scattered.

22 A voice of a report, lo, it hath come, Even a great shaking from the north country, To make the cities of Judah a desolation, A habitation of dragons.

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

24 Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.

25 Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:23I 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.

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 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.