Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation—O how lofty are its eyes! and its eyelids are so lifted up.
Leeser Tanakh
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 is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed [clean] of its filthiness.
Cross References
Psalms 131:1“A song of the degrees by David.” O Lord, my heart was not haughty, nor were my eyes lofty: neither have I walked after matters too great, or those too wonderful for me.
Proverbs 21:4Haughtiness of the eyes, and an immoderate heart, are the sinful field of the wicked.
Isaiah 3:16And the Lord said, Forasmuch as the daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with stretched forth necks and casting about their eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Ezekiel 28:9Wilt thou then say, I am God, before him that slayeth thee? when thou art but a man, and no God, in the hand of him that fatally wounded thee.
Habakkuk 2:4Behold, disturbed, not at rest is the soul of [the wicked] in him; but the righteous ever liveth in his [trustful] 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 →