Proverbs 16:3
New International Version
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.

New Living Translation
Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed.

English Standard Version
Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

Berean Standard Bible
Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

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

New King James Version
Commit your works to the LORD, And your thoughts will be established.

New American Standard Bible
Commit your works to the LORD, And your plans will be established.

NASB 1995
Commit your works to the LORD And your plans will be established.

NASB 1977
Commit your works to the LORD, And your plans will be established.

Legacy Standard Bible
Commit your works to Yahweh And your plans will be established.

Amplified Bible
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].

Christian Standard Bible
Commit your activities to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Commit your activities to the LORD, and your plans will be achieved.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Show your works to LORD JEHOVAH and he will establish your thoughts.

Contemporary English Version
Share your plans with the LORD, and you will succeed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Entrust your efforts to the LORD, and your plans will succeed.

Good News Translation
Ask the LORD to bless your plans, and you will be successful in carrying them out.

International Standard Version
Entrust your work to the LORD, and your planning will succeed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Commit thy works unto the LORD, And thy thoughts shall be established.

Literal Standard Version
Roll your works to YHWH, | And your purposes are established,

Majority Standard Bible
Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

New American Bible
Entrust your works to the LORD, and your plans will succeed.

NET Bible
Commit your works to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

New Revised Standard Version
Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

New Heart English Bible
Entrust your works to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
2All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD. 3Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved. 4The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.…

Cross References
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

Psalm 37:5
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.

Psalm 55:22
Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

Proverbs 3:6
in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.


Treasury of Scripture

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

commit

Job 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Psalm 37:4,5
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart…

Psalm 55:22
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

thy thoughts

Job 22:28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Isaiah 7:5-7
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, …

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(3) Commit thy works unto the Lord.--Literally, roll them upon Him, as a burden too heavy to be borne by thyself. "Thy works" signify all that thou hast to do. (Comp. Psalm 37:5.) God provides such works for us. (Comp. Ephesians 2:10.)

And thy thoughts shall be established.--Thy plans shall prosper, for they will be undertaken according to the will of God, and carried out by His aid. (Comp. 1Corinthians 3:9; 2Corinthians 6:1.)

Verse 3. - Commit thy works unto the Lord. "Commit" (gol) is literally "roll" (κύλισον, Theodotion), as in Psalm 22:8 and Psalm 37:5; and the injunction means, "Transfer thy burden to the Lord, cast upon him all that thou hast to do; do all as in his sight, and as an act of duty to him." Thus Tobit says to his son, "Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper" (Tobit 4:19). The Vulgate, using a different punctuation (gal), renders, "Reveal to the Lord thy works?' As a child opens its heart to a tender parent, so do thou show to God thy desires and intentions, trusting to his care and providence. And thy thoughts shall be established. The plans and deliberations out of which the "works" sprang shall meet with a happy fulfilment, because they are undertaken according to the will of God, and directed to the end by his guidance (comp. Proverbs 19:21; Psalm 90:17; 1 Corinthians 3:9). This verse is not in the Septuagint.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Commit
גֹּ֣ל (gōl)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 1556: To roll, roll away

your works
מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ (ma·‘ă·śe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the LORD,
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and your plans
מַחְשְׁבֹתֶֽיךָ׃ (maḥ·šə·ḇō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4284: A contrivance, a texture, machine, intention, plan

will be achieved.
וְ֝יִכֹּ֗נוּ (wə·yik·kō·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3559: To be erect


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