Parallel Verses

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.

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

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 are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. 13 There is a kind—oh how lofty are his eyes!
And his eyelids are raised in arrogance.
14 There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.

Cross References

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalm 101:5

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Psalm 131:1

O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

Isaiah 2:11

The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Proverbs 21:4

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

Isaiah 3:16

The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,

Ezekiel 28:2-5

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god--

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, 'I am a god,' in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?

Daniel 11:36-37

"And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.

Habakkuk 2:4

"Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

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