The Mysterious Way of Man. When the Bible uses the figure of a way it wants to emphasize that we are traveling in a certain direction. We have been traveling in a certain direction toward a definite goal with constant progress. Notice that in the text distinction is made between steps and the way. By steps are meant all the individual acts we perform at any given moment.
Every secret motive is a step on the way.
We are continually stepping. We are continually going on, and our individual acts are steps on the way. Some steps are more important than others. But that is not all. Our individual way is linked up with the way of everyone else.