Proverbs 30:13
11 There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
12 There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
14 there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
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Compare
- BSB
- There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
- KJV
- There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- WEB
- There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
- ASV
- There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
- DARBY
- there is a generation, how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
- BLB
- A generation—how high its eyes, and its eyelids are lifted up!
- ÅB
- en slekt -- hvor stolte er ikke dens øyne, og dens øyelokk, hvor hever de seg ikke! --
- OTB
- de som har så hovmodige øyne, hvis blikk er fylt med arroganse;
- B1930
- en ætt - hvor stolte er ikke dens øine, og dens øielokk, hvor hever de sig ikke! -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 6:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Read in contextIsaiah 2:11
The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Read in contextPsalms 101:5
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Read in contextPsalms 131:1
My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
Read in contextEzekiel 28:9
Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
Read in contextProverbs 21:4
Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:16
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
Read in contextEzekiel 28:2–5
“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
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