Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.
Updated King James 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
1The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it anywhere he will.
3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
Psalms 36:2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Proverbs 16:25There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 20:6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Daniel 5:27TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, 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 →