“Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself.It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.”
Jeremiah 10:23 (WEB)
Context Reading
21For the shepherds have become brutish,and have not inquired of Yahweh.Therefore they have not prospered,and all their flocks have scattered. 22The voice of news, behold, it comes,and a great commotion out of the north country,to make the cities of Judah a desolation,a dwelling place of jackals. 23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself.It is not in man who walks to direct his steps. 24Yahweh, correct me, but gently;not in your anger,lest you reduce me to nothing. 25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,and on the families that don’t call on your name;for they have devoured Jacob.Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him,and have laid waste his habitation.