Practical Paths
Psalm 5:8
Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.


Two men aspire to be inventors of first-rate rank. The one spends all his life in study and experiment, and lights upon nothing new; but the other has some surprising discovery to put before the public every year or two. How do we explain the difference? Is it luck and nothing more? The unsuccessful inventor, with perhaps equal ingenuity, is following impracticable and unremunerative paths for a lifetime. The successful inventor knows in what direction others have toiled without profit, and scarcely ever spends a week on a misleading scent. His shrewd despair of finding anything new or remunerative in certain directions shuts him up to one golden path of fruitful research.

(Thomas G. Selby.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

WEB: Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.




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