Proverbs 30:12
Some people think that they are perfect, but really they have never been cleansed from their guilt for committing disgusting sins.
Translation for Translators
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
13Some people are very proud; they think that they are very good and they despise others.
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good things for me, because I have a man from the tribe of Levi to be my priest.”
Job 33:9‘I am innocent; I have not committed any sins; I am pure; I have not done things that are wrong.
Psalms 51:2Make me pure from the wrong things that I have done; make me clean from the guilt of my sin.
Proverbs 16:2People may think that their actions are right, but Yahweh really knows why people do what they do.
Isaiah 1:16Cleanse your inner beings, and become spiritually clean! Stop your evil behavior! Stop doing things that are wrong!
Jeremiah 2:22Your guilt from your sins is like [MET] very bad stains on a cloth, and you cannot get rid of those stains even by using very strong soap. This is true because I, Yahweh, have said it.
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 →