Charles Ellicott Commentary Proverbs 16:2

"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits." — Proverbs 16:2 (ASV)

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes. —Yet that does not excuse his faults in God’s sight. (Compare to 1 Corinthians 4:4). So much the more reason is there for anxious self-examination and testing the conduct by God’s word, and, when this has been done to the best of our power, still to pray for cleansing from faults which have escaped our notice (Psalms 19:12).