Proverbs 30:13

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

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations

There is a generation, O howe lofty are their eyes! and their eye-lids are lifted vp.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

There is a kind--oh how lofty are his eyes! And his eyelids are raised {in arrogance.}
- New American Standard Version (1995)

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
- American Standard Version (1901)

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

there is a generation, -- how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
- Darby Bible

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- Webster's Bible

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

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.
- Youngs Literal Bible

There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Bible commentary

Wesley's Notes for Proverbs 30:13


30:11 A generation - A sort of men.

30:12 Not washed - Who imagine they are truly religious, when they live in a course of wickedness.

30:14 Devour - Extortioners, and cruel oppressors.

30:15 The horse - leach - An insatiable creature, sucking blood 'till it is ready to burst. Two daughters - The following things resemble the horse - leach in its insatiableness; nothing being more ordinary than to call those persons or things the sons or daughters of those whose examples they imitate. Three - Though he begins with two, yet he proceeds from thence to three, and four, all which are said to be the daughters of the horse - leach.


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