Psalm 36:2 {35:3}
Good News Translation
Because they think so highly of themselves, they think that God will not discover their sin and condemn it.

New Revised Standard Version
For they flatter themselves in their own eyes that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Contemporary English Version
They like themselves too much to hate their own sins or even to see them.

New American Bible
For he lives with the delusion: his guilt will not be known and hated.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

For he

Psalm 10:3 For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

Psalm 49:18 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

Deuteronomy 29:19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,

Jeremiah 2:23,34,35 How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course. . . .

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Hosea 12:7,8 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. . . .

Luke 10:29 But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbour?

Luke 16:14,15 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. . . .

Romans 7:9 And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Romans 10:3 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

until [heb.

1 Samuel 15:18-24 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them. . . .

1 Chronicles 10:13,14 So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the commandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and moreover consulted also a witch, . . .

Romans 3:9 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

Context
The Transgression of the Wicked
1Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. [2] The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.3The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:19
And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,

Psalm 10:4
The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:

Psalm 10:11
For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.

Psalm 49:18
For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

Psalm 36:1
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