The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.
All Commentaries on Proverbs 21:1 Go To Proverbs 21
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
It. Though it be free, and may resist grace or embrace virtue, Isaias xlv. 22., Jeremias iii. 14., and vii. 3., and Josue xxiv. 23. (Calmet)
Yet God knows how to turn the heart even of a king, so as to preserve his liberty, with the same ease as a gardener brings the streams of water to his plants. (Menochius)