Proverbs 21:2 (BSB)

All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:2: 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:2: Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,.... This is repeated, from Pro 16:2; for the confirmation of it; and that it might be observed and taken notice of, and men be brought under a conviction of it; which is not easily done, it being what affects all men: every man is conceited of himself and his own way, and is not...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:2: Pro 21:2 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).