Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.
Young's Literal Translation
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 Jehovah rather than sacrifice.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for [it is] not as man seeth — for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh 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 proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?
Proverbs 30:12A generation — pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
Daniel 5:27Weighed — Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast 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 →