Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

In Context

12There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

14There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

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Cross References

Psalms 131:1LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I exercise myself in grand matters, or in things too wonderful for me.

Proverbs 21:4A high look, and a proud heart, [even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Isaiah 3:16Moreover LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,

Ezekiel 28:9Will thou yet say before him who slays thee, I am God? But thou are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds thee.

Habakkuk 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man shall live by his faith.

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 →

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