John Trapp on Proverbs 16:2

Verſ. 2. All the wayes of a man are clean in his own eyes] Every man is apt enough to think well of his own doings, and would bee ſorry but his penny ſhould bee good ſilver. They that were born in hell, know no other heaven; neither goes any man to hell, but hee hath ſome excuſe for it. Quintilian could ſay, Sceleri nunquam defuiſſe rationem: As covetouſneſs, ſo moſt other ſins go cloaked and coloured.Auguſt. Sed ſordet in conſpectu judiciis quod fulget in conſpectu eſtimantis. All is not gold that gliſters. A thing that I ſee in the night may ſhine; and that ſhining proceed from nothing but rottenneſs.Bern. Melius eſt pallens aurum, quam fulgens aurichalcum; That which is highly eſteemed amongſt men, is abomination in the ſight of God, Luke 16.15.

But the Lord weigheth the ſpirits] Not ſpeeches and actions only, as Prov. 5.21. but mens aims and inſides. Men ſee but the ſurface of things, and ſo are many times miſtaken; but Gods fiery eyes pierce into the inward parts, and there diſcover a new found world of wickedneſs. Hee turns up the bottome of the bag, as Joſephs ſteward did; and then out come all our thefts and miſ-doings, that had ſo long lain latent.