Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Cross References
Psalms 131:1A Song of Ascents; of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me.
Proverbs 21:4A haughty look, and a proud heart — the tillage of the wicked is sin.
Isaiah 3:16Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
Ezekiel 28:9Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God? But thou art man, and not God, in the hand of them that defile thee.
Habakkuk 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his 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 →