Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids 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.

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 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 that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filth. 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 like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.



Cross References

Proverbs 6:17

a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalm 101:5

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

Psalm 131:1

A Song of degrees; of David. O Jehovah, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes lofty; nor have I walked in great things, nor in things too wondrous for me.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Proverbs 21:4

A high look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Isaiah 3:16

And Jehovah says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and have walked with stretched out 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. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods;

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am of the gods? But you are a man, and not God, in the hand of him who kills you.

Daniel 11:36-37

And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper until the fury is fulfilled. For that which is decreed shall be done.

Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, the soul of him is lifted up, and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,

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