John Trapp on Proverbs 21:2

Verſ. 2. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes] See the Note on chap. 16.2. Such is our ſinful Self-love, that Suffenus-like wee eaſily admire that little Nothing of any good that is in us: we ſo claſp and hugg the barn of our own brain, with the Ape, that we ſtrangle it: we ſet up a Counter for a thouſand pounds; and boaſt of thoſe graces whereunto wee are perfect ſtrangers. We turn the perſpective, and gladly ſee our ſelves bigger, others leſſer than they are: we flatter out own ſouls, as Micah did his, Judg. 17.13. Wherein it falls out oft as it did with the riflers of Semiramis her tomb, who where they expected to finde the richeſt Treaſure, met with a deadly Poyſon. Seem wee never ſo juſt, becauſe firſt in our own cauſe, God (as Salomon ſaith of a mans Neighbour) comes and ſearches us, and then things appears otherwiſe. Luke 16.15.