Verse 2

Every way of a man `is' right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:2 : 2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way right before a man, And its latter end -- ways of death.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;
  • Prov 24:12 : 12 When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for `it is' not as man seeth -- for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
  • Luke 18:11-12 : 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.
  • Prov 20:6 : 6 A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 for if any one doth think `himself' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
  • Ps 36:2 : 2 For he made `it' smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all `men', 25 and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.