“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? The absurdity of the image makes the point: the person who can detect a speck in someone else's eye while failing to notice a log in their own is engaging in an impossibility. The hyperbolic disproportion — speck versus log — communicates the equally absurd disproportion between the critical attention given to others' faults and the inattention given to one's own. Romans 2:1 makes the same point: you who judge others do the same things yourself. The critical faculty that is directed outward with such precision could be redirected inward with far more productive results.
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