Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves and our
own actions, and to think too favourably of our own character, as if
there was nothing amiss in it: Every way of a man, even his by-way, is
right in his own eyes. The proud heart is very ingenious in putting a
fair face upon a foul matter, and in making that appear right to itself
which is far from being so, to stop the mouth of conscience. 2. We are
sure that the judgment of God concerning us is according to truth.
Whatever our judgment is concerning ourselves, the Lord ponders the
heart. God looks at the heart, and judges of men according to that, of
their actions according to their principles and intentions; and his
judgment of that is as exact as ours is of that which we ponder most,
and more so; he weighs it in an unerring balance, ch. xvi. 2.