Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness.
Catholic Public Domain 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 which curses their father, and which does not bless their mother.
13There is a generation, whose eyes have been elevated, and their eyelids are lifted on high.
Cross References
Judges 17:13saying: “Now I know that God will be good to me, since I have a priest from the stock of the Levites.”
Job 33:9“I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.
Psalms 51:2When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes; the Lord is the one who weighs spirits.
Isaiah 1:16Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely.
Jeremiah 2:22Even if you wash yourself with soap, and increase your use of herbal soaps, you are still stained by your iniquity in my sight, says the Lord God.
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 →