''Plank-eye!
Plank-eye!
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3-4
Our own imperfections unfit us for judging fairly. With planks in our own eyes, we cannot see clearly to pick specks out of our brother's eye.
One of the qualities which make us incapable of impartial judgment of others, is envy . There are few of us who can see our neighbor's life, work, and disposition — without some warping and distortion of the picture.
Envy has a strange effect on our moral vision. It shows the beautiful things in others — with the beauty dimmed. It shows the blemishes and faults in them — exaggerated. Thus in very many ways, we are unfitted in ourselves to be judges of others.
"Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind!" 1 Peter 2:1