Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes, || And YHWH is pondering hearts.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
In Context
3To do righteousness and judgment, || Is chosen of YHWH rather than sacrifice.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7And YHWH says to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance, and at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for [it is] not as man sees—for man looks at the eyes, and YHWH looks at the heart.”
Psalms 36:2For he made [it] smooth to himself in his eyes, || To find his iniquity to be hated.
Proverbs 16:25There is a way right before a man, || And its latter end—ways of death.
Proverbs 20:6A multitude of men each proclaim his kindness, || And a man of steadfastness who finds?
Proverbs 30:12A generation—pure in their own eyes, || But not washed from their own filth.
Daniel 5:27Weighed—You are weighed in the balances, and have been found lacking.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:2
Miscellaneous Maxims. 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord , as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Note, 1. Even the hearts of men are in God's hand, and not only their goings, as he had said, ch. xx. 24 . God can change men's minds, can, by a powerful insensible operation under their spirits, turn them from that which they seemed most intent upon, and incline them to that which they seemed most averse to, as the husbandman, by canals and gutters, turns the water through his grounds… Read the whole commentary →