Pro 19:21 KJV There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

I like the wording in this version specifically the wording devices in man's (mankind) heart. The bible says that our hearts can be deceitful and desperately wicked therefore we must take inventory of our thoughts we must take our own temperature to make sure we are not devising plans of evil or ill will towards God how can we think evil towards God you asked? If we think on another person or even yourself in an evil way you have also done this to God because we are all his children. Now in this situation our thoughts and our plans we come up with ourselves need to be filtered through the word of God or God will allow us to be left to our own devices. Meaning he will leave us alone and allow situations to play out as they may because he knows what's best for us. But if we are not careful we can easily get distracted and start doing our own thing. Like how the prodigal son didn't want to wait for his father to die to have his inheritance and asked for it so he could go live his life. As a loving Father his father gave him his portion and the son squandered it all away and had to learn to live without the money but also without his father and realized he needed to be back home. But just how God does us is the same way that the father did his son and accepted him back into his home with open and loving arms even after he messed up. When all along he could have been home in his father's house the whole time. Which is the same for us. This world has nothing  better to offer us than what God can. After all he created us and everything else and can allow blessings to rain down on us any given moment. We have to learn how to sit with God and have a relationship with him because you don't really recognize the voice of a stranger. You might be able to tell by someones' accent where they are from. But you don't know their heart or their thoughts toward you unless you communicate with this person and get to know them so it's not any different with God. THE LORD IS OUR SHEPARD and we are his sheep. Therefore he cares for us. So if we have relationship with God as his sleep we will know his voice (his word) and a strangers' voice we will not follow.

Pro 19:21 EasyEnglish A man may have lots of ideas. But the Lord will do what he wants to do.

We may have lots of ideas and the Bible even tells us that if a man's ways please God he will give us the desires of our heart which could be the ideas we have in our mind but we have to give credit and honor to God for keeping us and ordering our steps. God may tell you to turn left while you are driving but the place you are going to it would be faster if you turned right but because you have a relationship with God you are his sheep you are able to recognize his voice and follow instructions and you turn left and later find out there was a 3 car pile up at the location you were going to but because you were obedient to what you heard your life was spared.  Sometimes with God he will take us on a detour to save us or to teach us something before we get to our destination. See having a relationship with Our heavenly Father is a matter of life and death not about getting materialistic things. We have to learn how to seek God's face and not his hands. God knows the way we should go.

Pro 19:21 ISV Many plans occupy the mind of

a man, but the LORD’s purposes will prevail.

Occupy means to take up space and or residence.

Therefore we ought to allow the Holy Spirit take up space in our hearts, our mines and spirit. We already know that God is our Heavenly Father our creator and he loves us so why not put all our trust in the very fact he knows what we need and the way are life should and will go. All he asks from us is to obey him and keep his commands.

Pro 16:1 KJV The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

We dealt with our thoughts and