Proverbs 30:12
A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech.
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. Borith... An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt.
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 →