Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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
11There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
13There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.
Job 33:9I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
Psalms 51:2\51:1\When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.
Proverbs 16:2All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
Isaiah 1:16Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Jeremiah 2:22For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
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 →