Proverbs 16:33
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Disposing - Better, the judgment or sentence which depends upon the lot. The lots were thrown into the gathered folds of a robe, and then drawn out. Where everything seemed the merest chance, there…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
Note, 1. The divine Providence orders and directs those things which to us are perfectly casual and fortuitous. Nothing comes to pass by chance, nor is an event determined by a blind fortune, but…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the lap from the folds of which it was drawn or shaken out.
disposing Lit. judgement. The decision, which when appealed to as arbiter it pronounces, is not its own but Jehovah's.
The religion of the…
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