11 translations · Hebrew
Proverbs 16:3
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
Proverbs 16:3 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
- KJV King James Version
- Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes shall be established.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Roll your works to YHWH, || And your purposes are established,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Trust whatever you do to the Lord, and your plans will be successful.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Commit thy works to the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֹּ֣ל | gōl | Commit | H1556 גָּלַל to roll |
| אֶל־ | ’el- | to | H413 אֶל to(wards) |
| יְהוָ֣ה | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ | ma·‘ă·śe·ḵā | your works | H4639 מַעֲשֶׂה deed: work |
| וְ֝יִכֹּ֗נוּ | wə·yik·kō·nū | will be achieved | H3559 כּוּן to establish: prepare |
| מַחְשְׁבֹתֶֽיךָ׃ | maḥ·šə·ḇō·ṯe·ḵā | and your plans | H4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה plot |
Related verses
- Psalm 37:4–5
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
- Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
- Psalm 55:22
Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
- Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
- 1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- Job 22:28
You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.
- Job 5:8
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
- Luke 12:22
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
- Matthew 6:25–34
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? “Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? …
- Isaiah 7:5–7
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying, “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.” This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
Read all of Proverbs 16 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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