Proverbs 16:3

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.

American King James Version (AKJV)

Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.

American Standard Version (ASV)

Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes shall be established.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

Webster's Revision

Commit thy works to the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

World English Bible

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

English Revised Version (ERV)

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Clarke's Proverbs 16:3 Bible Commentary

Commit thy works unto the Lord - See that what thou doest is commanded; and then begin, continue, and end all in his name. And thy thoughts shall be established - these schemes or arrangements, though formed in the heart, are agreeable to the Divine will, and therefore shall be established. His thoughts - his meditations - are right; and he begins and ends his work in the Lord; and therefore all issues well.

Barnes's Proverbs 16:3 Bible Commentary

Commit - literally, as in the margin, as a man transfers a burden from his own back to one stronger and better able to bear it. Compare the margin reference.

Thy thoughts - i. e., The plans or counsels out of which the works spring.

Wesley's Proverbs 16:3 Bible Commentary

16:3 Commit - Refer all thy actions and concerns to God, as the end of them, and depend upon God's providence for success. Established - Thy designs shall be brought to an happy issue.