Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
World Messianic Bible
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 that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
Job 33:9‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Psalms 51:2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the motives.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Jeremiah 2:22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity 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 →