'Congratulates' in the Bible

It will happen that when he (a renegade) hears the words of this oath, and he imagines himself as blessed, saying, ‘I will have peace and safety even though I walk within the stubbornness of my heart [rejecting God and His law], in order that the watered land dwindles away along with the dry [destroying everything],’

Though while he lives he congratulates himself—And though men praise you when you do well for yourself—

And in this same way David speaks of the blessing on the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: