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The Words of Agur

Proverbs 30:13

In 10 translations

BSB
There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
KJV
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
WEB
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
ASV
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
LSV
A generation—how high are their eyes, || Indeed, their eyelids are lifted up.
YLT
A generation — how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.
DBY
there is a generation, — how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
DRC
A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.
GNV
There is a generation, whose eies are hautie, and their eye liddes are lifted vp.
JPS
There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

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Original-language editions

WLC
דּ֭וֹר מָה־רָמ֣וּ עֵינָ֑יו וְ֝עַפְעַפָּ֗יו יִנָּשֵֽׂאוּ׃

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
  • Psalms 131:1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
  • Ezekiel 28:2–5“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though…
  • Ezekiel 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
  • Habakkuk 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright — but the righteous will live by faith —
  • Proverbs 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.
  • Isaiah 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
  • Daniel 11:36–37Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what…
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:3–4Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed. He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of…

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