#man's strength

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

I recollect when I resolved never to sin again. I sinned before I had done my breakfast.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

[coolksaposts]

23  O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself:

It is not in man that walketh oto direct his steps.

24  O Lord, pcorrect me, but with judgment;

Not in thine anger, lest thou †bring me to nothing. Jer 10+23-24 KJ

23 I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own.

We are not able to plan our own course.

24 So correct me, Lord, but please be gentle.

Do not correct me in anger, for I would die. NLT

23I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps. 24Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.…Berean Study Bible ·

Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD. Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. Proverbs 20:24 A man's steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

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.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

It is impossible for men to convert themselves by their own strength and industry, or by exercising their natural abilities and principles of the soul.

Jonathan Edwards

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than man's, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's. - 1 Corinthians 1:25 | New Heart English Bible (NHEB)

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