Guidance & Direction Verses
Let God's word be a lamp to your feet. Verses on divine direction, purpose, and life's calling.
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. {lookest...: Heb. observest} {heels: Heb. roots}
{Yet} through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where {is} he? {wasteth...: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off}
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow {out} of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. {washest...: Heb. overflowest}
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return. {a few...: Heb. years of number}
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. {be...: Heb. add strength}
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, {even} the thoughts of my heart. {the thoughts: Heb. the possessions}
The snare {is} laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. {laid: Heb. hidden}
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.