Proverbs Chapter 16 verse 2 Holy Bible
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits.
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All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
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All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Jehovah weigheth the spirits.
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All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
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All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Yahweh weighs the motives.
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All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.
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Proverbs 16 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes (Proverbs 21:2). He may deceive himself, and be blind to his own faults, or be following an ill-informed and ill-regulated conscience (Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 14:12), yet this is no excuse in God's eyes. The Lord weigheth the spirits. Not the "ways," the outward life and actions only, but motives, intentions, dispositions (Hebrews 4:12). He too knows our secret faults, unsuspected by others, and perhaps by ourselves (Psalm 19:12). The Septuagint has here, "All the works of the humble are manifest before God, but the impious shall perish in an evil day." The next verse is omitted in the Greek; and the other clauses up to ver. 8 are dislocated.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.--Yet that does not excuse his faults in God's sight. (Comp. 1Corinthians 4:4.) So much the more reason is there for anxious self-examination and testing the conduct by God's word, and, when this has been done to the best of our power, still to pray for cleansing from faults which have escaped our notice. (Psalm 19:12.)
