Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 16:2
We are blind to our own faults, do not see ourselves as others see us. There is One who tries not the “ways” only, but the “spirits” Hebrews 4:12 : this is the true remedy against self-deceit.
We are blind to our own faults, do not see ourselves as others see us. There is One who tries not the “ways” only, but the “spirits” Hebrews 4:12 : this is the true remedy against self-deceit.
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14. CLEAN. pure OWN EYES. Compare Proverbs 12:15 Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 14:12;...
See Proverbs 21:2, where this proverb recurs almost in the same words. Comp. 1 Corinthians 4:4....
DISCOURSE: 791 MAN’S ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF AND GOD’S CONTRASTED Proverbs 16:2. _All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes: but the Lord weigheth the spirits_. AMONGST the purest joys of a Christi...
CHAPTER 16 TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11 1. The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. 2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth t...
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. ALL THE WAYS OF A MAN ARE CLEAN IN HIS OWN EYES ( ; ): BUT THE LORD WEIGHETH THE SPIRITS. He alone is the Judge...
Cp. 1 Corinthians 4:4....
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
Even an evil man thinks that he is right. He even persuades himself. Other people might believe him. But God knows the truth about that man....
ALL THE WAYS OF A MAN ARE CLEAN IN HIS OWN EYES. — Yet that does not excuse his faults in God’s sight. (Comp. 1 Corinthians 4:4.) So much the more reason is there for anxious self-examination and test...
כָּֽל ־דַּרְכֵי ־אִ֭ישׁ זַ֣ךְ בְּ עֵינָ֑יו וְ
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
All the ways of a man [are] (b) clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. (b) He shows by it that man flatters himself in his doings, calling that virtue, which God terms vice....
_Open. Or approved. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "pure in his own eyes." He sees not his own defects, chap. xxi. 2., and Job xxviii. 23. (Calmet)_...
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. The LORD hath made all things for himself: ye...
_PRINCIPLES TURN THE SCALE_ ‘All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.’ Proverbs 16:2 Whether it be from the condition in which man is placed in this world...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
ALL THE WAYS OF A MAN [ARE] CLEAN IN HIS OWN EYES,.... All right and well, not only some, but all, having a high opinion of himself; for this is to be understood of a self-righteous man, who is pure i...
All the ways of a man [are] clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. Ver. 2. _All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes._] Every man is apt to think well of his own doings, and...
_All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes_ Men can easily flatter and deceive themselves into a good opinion of themselves, and of their own actions, though they be sinful; _but the Lord weigheth...
V. 2. ALL THE WAYS OF A MAN ARE CLEAN IN HIS OWN EYES, in his own judgment; BUT THE LORD WEIGHETH THE SPIRITS, He has ways and means to try all men according to their real moral worth, and His judgmen...
ALL THE WAYS OF A MAN ARE CLEAN IN HIS OWN EYES; many men can easily flatter and deceive themselves into a good opinion of themselves, and of their own actions, though they be sinful. See below, PROVE...
Proverbs 16:2 ways H1870 man H376 pure H2134 eyes H5869 LORD H3068 weighs H8505 (H8802) spirits H7307...
Proverbs 16:2 Whether it be from the condition in which man is placed in this world, closely surrounded on all sides by what is visible and tangible, or because our understandings have been darkened i...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
_All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes._ FALSE JUDGMENTS The best causuits have decided the point that a good intention cannot sanctify an immoral act; but it is certain that an indirect or...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:1 The comparison between the PLANS of a man’s HEART (vv. Proverbs 16:1,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:2. Miller translates this verse very differently. See comments on the verse. PROVERBS 16:3. COMMIT, rather _roll_. THOUGHTS, or “_plans_.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
1 Samuel 15:13; 1 Samuel 15:14; 1 Samuel 16:7; Daniel 5:27; Isaiah 26:7
Weigheth — Exactly knows as men do the things which they weigh. Spirits — The hearts of men....