Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation whose eyes are raised up, 1 and how high are their eyelids lifted up! 1

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

In Context

12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, 1 and yet they are not washed of their filth. 1

14There is a generation whose teeth are swords, 1 and their jawbones are like knives, 1 so they may devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 131:1Yahweh, my heart is not proud or my eyes haughty. 1 I do not have great hopes for myself 1 or concern myself with things that are beyond me. 1

Proverbs 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart— 1 the lamp of the wicked—are sin. 1

Isaiah 3:16Yahweh says that because the daughters of Zion are proud, 1 they walk with their necks extended, 1 with flirting eyes, walking with tiny steps as they go, 1 making tinkling sounds from bracelets on their ankles. 1

Ezekiel 28:9Will you truly say, “I am a god” to the face of one who kills you? You are a man and not God, and you will be in the hand of the one who pierces you.

Habakkuk 2:4Look! The one whose desires are not right within him is puffed up. But the righteous will live by his faith. 1

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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