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 (Proverbs 16:25 ; Proverbs 14:12 ): but the Lord weigheth the spirits.
He alone is the Judge whether a man's ways are as clean as the man himself thinks them (1 Corinthians 4:4-5). We are apt to be blind to our own faults, lynx-eyed to those of others. "The God of the spirits of all flesh" (Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16) weighs in the exact balance of His judgment the inclinations, intentions, and abilities of men, so that many of men's ways, which look right to them, are not so in His holy eyes (Proverbs 5:21; Proverbs 21:2; Proverbs 24:12; 1 Samuel 16:7).