Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
In Context
11There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up.
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then Micah said, Now I know that LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest.
Job 33:9I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Psalms 51:2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the spirits.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says lord LORD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:11-15
Four Wicked Generations. 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty. 11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the… Read the whole commentary →