There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
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There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
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There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
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There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Cross-references (10)
Passages linked to Proverbs 30:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 6:17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
- Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
- Psalms 101:5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
- Psalms 131:1 Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
- Proverbs 21:4 A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
- Isaiah 3:16 Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
- Ezekiel 28:2-5 “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God— behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures; by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
- Ezekiel 28:9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
- Daniel 11:36-37 “The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done. He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.
- Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 30:13 [There is] a generation, O how lofty…
Pro 30:13 [There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Ver. 13. Oh how lofty are their eyes.] The eyes are the seat of pride and disdain, which peep out at these windows. The Hebrews have a saying, that a man’s mind is soonest seen in oculis, in loculis, in poculis, in his eyes, expenses, cups. See Pro 6:17.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Who are proud and insolent, advancing themselves, and despising…
Who are proud and insolent, advancing themselves, and despising all others in comparison of themselves, and showing the pride of their hearts in their countenances and carriages.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain There is a generation, O how lofty are their…
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. Above others, on whom they look with scorn and contempt; as those do who have more riches than others, and boast of them; they despise their poor neighbours, and disdain to look upon them: and such also who have more knowledge and wisdom than others, or at least think so; they are puffed up in their fleshly minds, and say of the illiterate or less knowing, as the proud Pharisees did, "this people, who knoweth not the law, are cursed": and likewise those who fancy themselves more holy and righteous than others; these, in a scornful manner, say, "stand by thyself, I am holier than thou"; and thank God they are not as other men are, as publicans and sinners; see Pro 19:4. Hence Pliny (i) says, that in the eyebrows there is a part of the mind; those especially show haughtiness; that pride has a receptacle elsewhere, but here it has its seat; it is bred in the heart, but here it comes and here it hangs: wherefore Juvenal (k) calls pride and haughtiness, "grande supercilium"; and proud haughty persons are said to be supercilious.
(i) Nat. Hist. 1. 11. c. 37. (k) Satyr. 6. v. 168.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 13. The third, Those who were full of…
Verse 13. The third, Those who were full of vanity, pride, and insolence.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A generation, oh, how lofty are their eyes! The…
A generation, oh, how lofty are their eyes! The third sin is pride and arrogance. (see on Pro_6:17 Pro_21:4) "Lord," said the psalmist, "my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty". (Psa_131:1) The prophet rebukes "the stout heart of the King of Assyria and the glory of his high looks". (Isa_10:12) Their eyelids are lifted up; in supercilious disdain. "Inde Proverbio dicimus," says Erasmus ("Adag."), "attolli supercilium, fastidium indicantes" (s.v. "Arrogantia").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 eyes are raised up ... their eyelids lifted up
eyes are raised up ... their eyelids lifted up
This describes people who think that they are better than other people. Their eyes show that they are proud, and the way they look at others shows that they think they are better than those other people. (See: Metonymy)
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There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jawbones are like knives, so they may devour the poor ... and the needy
The people of the generation who speak very harmful things is spoken of as if they were wild animals with teeth and jawbones made of swords and knives, and they eat the poor and needy. (See: Metaphor)
jawbones
the bones of the face where teeth grow
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