Proverbs 30:13
A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
In Context
12A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.
Cross References
Psalms 131:1Lord, remember David, and all his meekness: 1
Proverbs 21:4A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.
Isaiah 3:16Thus says the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:
Ezekiel 28:9Will you indeed say, I am God, before them that kill you? whereas you are man, and not God.
Habakkuk 2:4If he should draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by my 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 →