Proverbs 21:2
We can justify our every deed, but God looks at our motives. [Living Bible]
You may believe you are doing right, but the Lord judges your reasons. [New Century Version]
People think that everything they do is right, but the Lord knows exactly why they are doing it. [EasyEnglish Bible]
Everyone may think his own way of living is right, but the Eternal examines our hearts. [The Voice]
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ways: derek 1870 (Hebrew) manner, conduct, conversation, course of life, mode of action, habitual pattern, moral choices. It encapsulates movement, decision, and destiny, calling every one to make life choices, both immediate and long-term that are pleasing to God, lest they follow the path of the wicked to the punishment reserved for them, whether on an individual or national level.
right: yashar 3477 (Hebrew) straight, level, righteous; by extension, that which is morally right and pleasing before God. It speaks to physical alignment, ethical integrity, and social justice. God’s own divine character supplies the fixed reference point that defines “upright,” such as obeying God’s revealed law. Relativism, human self-reference, has deadly consequences, and leads to demands for a king.
weigh: takan 8505 (Hebrew) measure, ponder, test; the Lord is presented as the One who sets standards, assigns weights, and calibrates all things, for His scales are flawless and every action, hidden or public, of the hidden inner life is as measurable to Him as mountains on a scale. He is the universal Weigher governing creation, probing hearts, adjudicating nations, and sustaining the cosmos with scales that are never tipped by ignorance, partiality, or weakness; only what meets His standard endures.
heart: libbah 3826 (Hebrew) inner self, mind; the feminine counterpart of leb (3820) and accentuates the interior life – thoughts, motives, conscience, and moral character. Leb can bear a collective or even national nuance, but libbah consistently focuses on the individual’s inmost self where decisions are weighed and loyalties are forged.