Proverbs 30:13 “There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are t…”

Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

American Standard Version

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.

Geneva Bible 1599

There is a generation, whose eies are hautie, and their eye liddes are lifted vp.

Darby Translation

there is a generation, — how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!

Young's Literal Translation

A generation — how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

Bible in Basic English

There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!

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Cross references

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

Proverbs 6:17 Isaiah 2:11 Psalm 101:5 Psalm 131:1 Proverbs 21:4 Isaiah 3:16

Proverbs 6:17 · BSB

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 2:11 · BSB

The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Psalm 101:5 · BSB

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

Psalm 131:1 · BSB

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.

Proverbs 21:4 · BSB

Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.

Isaiah 3:16 · BSB

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—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

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