Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
Berean Standard Bible
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 of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
Cross References
Psalms 131:1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
Proverbs 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.
Isaiah 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
Ezekiel 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
Habakkuk 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright — but the righteous will live by 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 →