Psalm 36:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² For he flatters himself in his own eyes, To find his crookedness to be 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.

Psalm 36:2 Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For the wrongdoer boasted of his cravings; And the greedy one cursed and despised יהוה.

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed himself, And though they praise you when you do well for yourself,

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Jeremiah 2:23

“How do you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baʽ

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet the sovereign and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

Luke 10:29

But he, wishing to declare himself righteous, said to יהושע, “And who is my neighbour?”

Romans 10:3

For not knowing the righteousness of Elohim, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of Elohim.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all, for we have previously accused both Yehuḏ

Romans 7:9

And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died.

Deuteronomy 29:19

“And it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in order to add drunkenness to thirst.