For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Parallel translations
- KJV For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
- BSB For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
- NKJV For he flatters himself in his own eyes, When he finds out his iniquity and when he hates.
- NASB For it flatters him in his own eyes Concerning the discovery of his wrongful deed and the hatred of it.
- NLT In their blind conceit, they cannot see how wicked they really are.
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- Deut 29:19and 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.”
- Ps 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul — and men praise you when you do well for yourself —
- Ps 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
- Rom 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- 1 Sam 15:18–24and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
- 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
- Luke 10:29But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
- Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
- Luke 16:14–15The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
- Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
- Hos 12:7–8A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
- Jer 2:23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
- Jer 2:34–35Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
- Rom 3:9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
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