Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
King James Version
In Context
11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Job 33:9I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Psalms 51:2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:11-15
Four Wicked Generations. 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty. 11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is 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 as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the… Read the whole commentary →