Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, 1 And yet is not washed from their filthiness. 1
KJV Cambridge Paragraph
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, 1 And doth not bless their mother. 1
13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! 1 And their eyelids are lifted up. 1
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Job 33:9I am clean without transgression, 1 I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. 1
Psalms 51:2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, 1 And cleanse me from my sin. 1
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; 1 But the Lord weigheth the spirits. 1
Isaiah 1:16Wash ye, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; 1
Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, 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 →