💡WEB · Proverbs 30:13
What does Proverbs 30:13 mean?
"There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up."
— Proverbs 30:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
“The leach has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’
Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
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