God’s Word Translation
Psalms 36:2
2He flatters himself and does not hate or ⌞even⌟ recognize his guilt.
Psalms 36:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
- New International Version (NIV)In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For he flatters himself in his own eyes, When he finds out his iniquity and when he hates.
Context of Psalms 36:2
1There is an inspired truth about the wicked person who has rebellion in the depths of his heart: He is not terrified of God. He flatters himself and does not hate or ⌞even⌟ recognize his guilt. 3The words from his mouth are ⌞nothing but⌟ trouble and deception. He has stopped doing what is wise and good. 4He invents trouble while lying on his bed and chooses to go the wrong direction. He does not reject evil.
Read all of Psalms 36Psalms 36:2 word by word
כִּֽי־הֶחֱלִ֣יק אֵלָ֣יו בְּעֵינָ֑יו לִמְצֹ֖א עֲוֹנ֣וֹ לִשְׂנֹֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 36:2
- Psalms 10:3The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires. He blesses robbers, but he curses the Lord.
- Psalms 49:18Even though he blesses himself while he is alive (and they praise you when you do well for yourself),
- Deuteronomy 29:19Someone may hear the conditions of this promise. He may think that he is so blessed that he can say, “I’ll be safe even if I go my own stubborn way. After all, ⌞the Lord would never⌟ sweep away well-watered ground along with dry ground.”
- Jeremiah 2:23“How can you say that you haven’t dishonored yourselves and haven’t followed other gods—the Baals? Look how you’ve behaved in the valley. Acknowledge what you’ve done. You are like a young camel that swiftly runs here and there.
- Jeremiah 17:9“The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is.
- Hosea 12:7⌞The Lord says,⌟ “The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
- Luke 10:29But the man wanted to justify his question. So he asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who love money, heard all this and were making sarcastic remarks about him.
- Romans 7:9At one time I was alive without any laws. But when this commandment came, sin became alive
- Romans 10:3They don’t understand ⌞how to receive⌟ God’s approval. So they try to set up their own way to get it, and they have not accepted God’s way for receiving his approval.
- 1 Samuel 15:18And the Lord sent you on a mission. He said, ‘Claim those sinners, the Amalekites, for me by destroying them. Wage war against them until they’re wiped out.’
- 1 Chronicles 10:13So Saul died because of his unfaithfulness to the Lord: He did not obey the Lord’s word. He asked a medium to request information ⌞from a dead person⌟.
- Romans 3:9What, then, is the situation? Do we have any advantage? Not at all. We have already accused everyone (both Jews and Greeks) of being under the power of sin,
Commentaries on Psalms 36:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2For he flattereth himself - He is ruled by the suggestion already mentioned; endeavours to persuade himself that he may safely follow the propensities of his own heart, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. He sins so boldly, that at last he becomes detestable. Some think the words should be thus understood: "He smootheth over in his own eyes with respect to the finding out of his iniquity, to hate it. That is, he sets such a false gloss in his own…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes - He puts such an exalted estimate on himself; he so overrates himself and his own ability in judging of what is right and proper, that he is allowed to pursue a course which ultimately makes his conduct odious to all people: the result is so apparent, and so abominable, that no one can doubt what he himself is. The foundation or the basis of all this is an overweening confidence “in himself” - in his own…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4Foolish people reject wisdom and goodness while they chase after evil.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-42-4. This reflection detailed. until his iniquity--literally, "for finding his iniquity for hating"; that is, he persuades himself God will not so find it--"for hating" involving the idea of punishing. Hence his words of iniquity and deceit, and his bold rejection of all right principles of conduct. The climax is that he deliberately adopts and patronizes evil. The negative forms affirm more emphatically their contraries.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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