Psalm 36:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For he flatters and deceives himself in his own eyes that his iniquity will not be found out and be hated.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, That his iniquity will not be found out and be hated.

Common English Bible

² because in their own eyes they are slick with talk about their guilt ever being found out and despised.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For they will quickly wither away like dry grass, and in like manner to kitchen herbs, they will soon droop.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Psalm 36:2 Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.

Psalm 49:18

Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

Luke 10:29

But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Romans 10:3

For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin,

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;

Deuteronomy 29:19

one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.