Proverbs 30:12
A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.
LXX2012 (British)
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
11A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.
13A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids.
Cross References
Judges 17:13And Michaias said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because a Levite has become my priest.
Job 33:9I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.
Psalms 51:2your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit. 1
Proverbs 16:2All the works of the humble man are manifest with God; but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before my eyes; cease from your iniquities;
Jeremiah 2:22Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord.
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 →