Proverbs 30:12
A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
13A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.
Cross References
Judges 17:13Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the race of the Levites.
Job 33:9I am clean, and without sin : I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
Psalms 51:2when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bethsabee.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
Jeremiah 2:22Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith 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 →