Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

In Context

1It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue. 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.

3Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.

Read all of Proverbs 16

Cross References

Judges 7:6And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.

1 Samuel 15:13And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.

Psalms 36:2For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Proverbs 16:25There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.

Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

Proverbs 30:12A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:2

The Sovereignty of Divine Providence. 1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord . As we read this, it teaches us a great truth, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think or speak any thing of ourselves that is wise and good, but that all our sufficiency is of God, who is with the heart and with the mouth, and works in us both to will and to do, Phil. ii. 13 ; Ps. x. 17 . But most read it otherwise: The preparation of the heart is in man (he may contrive and… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Proverbs 16:2