Pro 16:1 | CPDV | STEP | It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue.

Proverbs 16:1

1 It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue. ^{▼▼16:1Again, the genitive case is not always possessive and is not always to be translated as ‘of.’(Conte)
,} ^{▼▼16:1 It is the part of man, etc: That is, a man should prepare in his heart and soul what he is to say: but after all, it must be the Lord that must govern his tongue, to speak to the purpose. Not that we can think any thing of good without God’s grace; but that after we have (with God’s grace) thought and prepared within our souls what we would speak, if God does not govern our tongue, we shall not succeed in what we speak.(Challoner)}