Proverbs 30:13

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“A generation--how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 30:13 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
  2. Psalms 131:1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
  3. Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
  4. Proverbs 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.
  5. Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
  6. Isaiah 3:16The 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—
  7. Ezekiel 28:2“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.
  8. Ezekiel 28:9Will 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.
  9. Daniel 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
  10. Habakkuk 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright— but the righteous will live by faith—
  11. 2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.

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