Proverbs 21:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Proverbs 21:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
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.
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.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

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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 and our own actions, and to think too favourably of our own character, as if there was nothing amiss in it: Every way of a man, even his by-way, is right in his own eyes. The proud heart is very ingenious in putting a fair face upon a foul matter, and in making that appear right to itself which is far from being so, to stop the mouth of…

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

(vv. 2)

2. (Compare Pr 14:2; 16:2-25).