Proverbs 30:13
A generation—how high are their eyes, || Indeed, their eyelids are lifted up.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
In Context
12A generation—pure in their own eyes, || But not washed from their own filth.
Cross References
Psalms 131:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. BY DAVID. YHWH, my heart has not been haughty, || Nor have my eyes been high, || Nor have I walked in great things, || And in things too wonderful for me.
Proverbs 21:4Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, || Tillage of the wicked [is] sin.
Isaiah 3:16“Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, || And they walk stretching out the neck, || And deceiving [with] the eyes, || They go walking and mincing, || And they make a jingling with their feet,
Ezekiel 28:9Do you really say, I [am] God, || Before him who is slaying you? And you [are] man, and not God, || In the hand of him who is piercing you.
Habakkuk 2:4Behold, a presumptuous one! His soul is not upright within him, || And the righteous lives 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 →