Proverbs 16:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Proverbs 16:2 —

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Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
1 Samuel 16:7
But 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 seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Jeremiah 17:10
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2)

Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves: All the ways of a man, all his designs, all his doings, are clean in his own eyes, and he sees nothing amiss in them, nothing for which to condemn himself, or which should make his projects prove otherwise than well; and therefore he is confident of success, and that the answer of the tongue shall be according to the expectations of th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. clean--or, “faultless.” weigheth--or, “tries,” “judges,” implying that they are faulty (Pr 21:2; 24:12).