Proverbs 30:13

Some people are very proud; they think that they are very good and they despise others.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

In Context

12Some people think that they are perfect, but really they have never been cleansed from their guilt for committing disgusting sins.

14Some people act very cruelly toward others; it is as though [MET] they have teeth that are like sharp knives; they severely oppress poor people and try to cause them to disappear from the land.

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Cross References

Psalms 131:1Yahweh, I am not proud and I have not thought highly about ◄myself/the things that I have done►. And I do not concern myself about things that you have done that are very big or very wonderful.

Proverbs 21:4Being proud and arrogant [DOU] is like a lamp [MTY] that guides wicked people; being proud and arrogant characterizes ◄wicked people’s whole behavior/everything that wicked people do►.

Isaiah 3:16Yahweh says this: “The women of Jerusalem are haughty/proud; they walk around sticking their chins out, and flirting with men with their eyes. They walk with tiny steps with bracelets on their ankles that jingle.

Ezekiel 28:9Then you will certainly not [RHQ] say to those who are killing you, 'I am a god!' because they will know that you are not a god; you are only a man.

Habakkuk 2:4Think about the proud people of Babylonia! They are certainly not doing what is righteous. But people who are righteous will live because they faithfully do what I want them to do.

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 →

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