Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 curse their father, and do not bless their mother.
13There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.'
Job 33:9'I am clean, without transgression, I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me;
Psalms 51:2(51-4) Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;
Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked 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 →