Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, 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 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.

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 A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed. 13 A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up. 14 A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

Cross References

Proverbs 6:17

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

Psalm 101:5

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

Psalm 131:1

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me.

Isaiah 2:11

The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

Proverbs 21:4

Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked is sin.

Isaiah 3:16

Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving with the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,

Ezekiel 28:2-5

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I am, The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou art man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God,

Ezekiel 28:9

Dost thou really say, 'I am God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou art man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.

Daniel 11:36-37

'And the king hath done according to his will, and exalteth himself, and magnifieth himself against every god, and against the God of gods he speaketh wonderful things, and hath prospered till the indignation hath been completed, for that which is determined hath been done.

Habakkuk 2:4

Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,

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