Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 20:24

24 Man's goings are of the LORD ; how can a man then understand his own way .

All mens purposes and actions.

Are ordered and over-ruled by God's wise and powerful Providence to accomplish his own counsel and good pleasure, and not what men list or intend

Either 1. what course he ought to take; which he cannot know without God's direction and assistance, Compare Prov. 16. 9. Ier. 10. 23. Or 2. what the issue of his designs will be, whether they shall succeed or be disappointed, the way being taken for the end or event to which it leads, as it is in many other places. The scope of the Proverb is to shew, that all the events of humane life are neither ordered nor foreseen by Mans, but onely by God's Providence, and therefore men should onely mind the doing of their duty, and then quietly depend upon God for a good Issue to their endeavours.

Marginal references: Ps. 37. 23. Ch. 16. 9. Jer. 10. 23.