Proverbs 21:2
Every person's way is right in his own eyes, 1 but it is Yahweh who weighs the hearts. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
In Context
1The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of Yahweh; 1 he turns it wherever he pleases. 1
3To do what is right and just 1 is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Do not look at his outward appearance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him. For Yahweh does not see as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks on the heart.”
Psalms 36:2For he comforts himself, 1 thinking that his sin will not be discovered and be hated. 1
Proverbs 16:25There is a way that seems right to a man, 1 but its end is the way to death. 1
Proverbs 20:6Many a person proclaims he is loyal, 1 but who can find one who is faithful? 1
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, 1 and yet they are not washed of their filth. 1
Daniel 5:27'Tekel,' 'you are weighed in the scales and are 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 →