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NASB | Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD And your plans will be established. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD [submit and trust them to Him], And your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance]. |
Subject: Roll your works to the Lord |
Bible Note: Hi Makarios, You have written a good synopsis for Proverbs 16:1-9. The only thing I would question is your last sentence which speaks of verse 7 but you also had another passage in mind, such as Joshua 1:8. However, our motives in rolling our works to the Lord is not prosperity for ourselves but in seeing success in our walk with Him. Meditating on His word, being careful to do according to all that is written in it, gaining His approval (having success) and acting wisely. (Joshua 1:8) Judges 18:5,6 gives us the idea of the connection between being prosperous and having the Lord's approval. Judges 18:5, "And they said to him, "Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be prosperous." 6 And the priest said to them, "Go in peace; your way in which you are going has the Lord's approval."" 1) So I would say that the Lord has made everything for Himself (for His own purpose). Proverbs 16:3 does not say that "He will establish your plans." Rather it says that when we commit our works to the Lord, our plans will be established; Amplified version,... "He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will,..." Proverbs 16:9, "The mind of man plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps." 2) I wonder if the word translated "commit" in Proverbs 16:3 but literally means "roll" is the Hebrew word, "megillah"? From the heart, Ray |
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