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Selected Verse: Proverbs 21:2 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 21:2 |
King James |
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Compare Pro 14:2; Pro. 16:2-25). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The next group extends from Pro 21:2 to Pro 21:8, where it closes as it began.
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes;
But a weigher of hearts is Jahve.
A proverb similar to Pro 16:2 (where דּרכי, for דּרך, זך for ישׁר, רוּחות for לבּות). God is also, Pro 17:3, called a trier, בּחן, of hearts, as He is here called a weigher, תּכן. The proverb indirectly admonishes us of the duty of constant self-examination, according to the objective norm of the revealed will of God, and warns us against the self-complacency of the fool, of whom Pro 12:15 says (as Trimberg in "Renner"): "all fools live in the pleasant feeling that their life is the best," and against the self-deception which walks in the way of death and dreams of walking in the way of life, Pro 14:12 (Pro 16:25). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The Lord pondereth the hearts - Every man feels strongly attached to his own opinions, modes of acting, etc.; and though he will not easily give up any thing to the judgment of a neighbor, whom he will naturally consider at least as fallible as himself, yet he should consider that the unerring eye of God is upon him; and he should endeavor to see that what he does is acceptable in the eye of his Maker and Judge. |
2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.