'Examines' in the Bible

For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.

The first to state his case seems rightuntil another comes and cross-examines him.

If you say, "Look here, we didn't know about this," doesn't God, who examines motives, discern it? Doesn't the one who guards your soul know about it? Won't he repay each person according to what he has done?