Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up.
New American Standard Bible
And his eyelids are raised in arrogance.
King James Version
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Holman Bible
and pretentious its looks.
International Standard Version
Some people what an arrogant look they have! raise their eyebrows haughtily.
American Standard Version
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
Amplified
There is a generation (class of people)—oh, how lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are raised in arrogance.
Bible in Basic English
There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
Darby Translation
there is a generation, how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
Julia Smith Translation
A generation, how its eyes were raised up and its eyelashes will be lifted up.
King James 2000
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.
Modern King James verseion
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There are people that have a proud look, and cast up their eyelids.
NET Bible
There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.
New Heart English Bible
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes. Their eyelids are lifted up.
The Emphasized Bible
A generation! How lofty are its eyes, and its eyelashes uplifted.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Four Kinds Of People
12 There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness. 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up. 14 There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 6:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Psalm 101:5
He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
Psalm 131:1
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I exercise myself in grand matters, or in things too wonderful for me.
Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Proverbs 21:4
A high look, and a proud heart, [even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Isaiah 3:16
Moreover LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,
Ezekiel 28:2-5
Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h
Ezekiel 28:9
Will thou yet say before him who slays thee, I am God? But thou are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds thee.
Daniel 11:36-37
And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods. And he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished, for
Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man shall live by his faith.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
Let not any man deceive you in any way, because if not, the defection may come first, and he may be revealed--the man of sin, the son of destruction,