Proverbs 30:13 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 30:13

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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23 verses on the floor

Isaiah 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:
Proverbs 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Ezekiel 2:6
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
Isaiah 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.
Psalms 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.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Four kinds of hateful persons--(1) graceless children, (2) hypocrites, (3) the proud, (4) cruel oppressors (compare on Pr 30:14; 52:2) --are now illustrated;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

What a distance do they expect every body should keep; and, when they look upon themselves, how do they strut and vaunt like the peacock, thinking they make themselves illustrious when really they make themselves ridiculous!" There is a generation of such, on whom he that resists the proud will pour contempt. Such as are cruel to the poor and barbarous to all that lie at their mercy (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 30:13PRO 6:17 PSA 120:2-3
PRO 30:13PRO 6:17 PSA 101:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 30:13ISA 2:11 PSA 18:27
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 30:13PSA 131:1 ROM 12:16
PRO 30:13PRO 6:17 PRO 12:22
PRO 30:13PSA 131:1 PSA 139:6
PRO 30:13ISA 2:11 ISA 2:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 30:13PRO 6:17 ISA 1:15

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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