Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

New American Standard Bible

There is a kind—oh how lofty are his eyes!
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

There is a generation—how haughty its eyes
and pretentious its looks.

International Standard Version

Some people what an arrogant look they have! raise their eyebrows haughtily.

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

רוּם 
Ruwm 
Usage: 189

עפעף 
`aph`aph 
Usage: 10

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Four Kinds Of People

12 There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways. 13 There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up! 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.



Cross References

Proverbs 6:17

Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

Psalm 131:1

Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

Isaiah 2:11

The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

Proverbs 21:4

A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

Isaiah 3:16

Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

Ezekiel 28:2-5

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.

Daniel 11:36-37

And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.

Habakkuk 2:4

As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

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