Psalms 36:2

WEB

²For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

KJV

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

BSB

²^[+] For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

FBV

²In their own eyes they're so wonderful that they can't even see their sin and do something about it.

Extra References

Deuteronomy 29:19

¹⁹and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

Psalms 10:3

³For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD.

Psalms 49:18

¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

Romans 7:9

⁹I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

1 Samuel 15:18-24

¹⁸and the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ ¹⁹Why then didn’t you obey the LORD’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight?”

²⁰Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the LORD’s voice, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ²¹But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”

²²Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. ²³For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.^[+] Because you have rejected the LORD’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

²⁴Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

Romans 10:3

³For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Luke 10:29

²⁹But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

Jeremiah 2:34-35

³⁴Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things. ³⁵“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

1 Chronicles 10:13-14

¹³So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the LORD’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire, ¹⁴and didn’t inquire of the LORD. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

Hosea 12:7-8

⁷A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. ⁸Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”