Proverbs 30:13
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.
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 needy from among men.
15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Read in contextIsaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Read in contextPsalms 101:5
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Read in contextPsalms 131:1
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Read in contextEzekiel 28:9
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
Read in contextProverbs 21:4
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:16
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Read in contextEzekiel 28:2–5
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
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