Proverbs 21:2
People always think that what they do is right, but Yahweh judges our ◄motives/reasons for doing things► [MTY].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
In Context
3Doing what is right and fair is more acceptable to Yahweh than bringing sacrifices to him.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7But Yahweh said to Samuel, “No, he is not the one whom I have chosen. Don’t pay attention to his being handsome and very tall, because I have not chosen him. I do not evaluate people as people do. You people evaluate people by their appearance, but I evaluate people by what is in their inner beings.”
Psalms 36:2Because they are very proud, they do not think that God will discover their sins and condemn them (OR, they do not think about their sins and hate themselves for it).
Proverbs 16:25There are some kinds of behavior [MET] that people think are right, but ◄walking on those roads [MET]/continually doing those things► causes those people to die.
Proverbs 20:6Many people proclaim that they can be trusted to do what they say that they will do, but it is very difficult to find [RHQ] someone who can really be trusted.
Proverbs 30:12Some people think that they are perfect, but really they have never been cleansed from their guilt for committing disgusting sins.
Daniel 5:27Tekel means ‘weighed’. It is as though God has weighed you on a scale, and you do not weigh what you should, which means that you have not been doing what you should; you are not fit to be a king [MET].
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 →