Proverbs - 30:13



13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 30:13.

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A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.
A generation, how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.
There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
There is a generation, whose eyes have been elevated, and their eyelids are lifted on high.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The third, Those who were full of vanity, pride, and insolence.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. Above others, on whom they look with scorn and contempt; as those do who have more riches than others, and boast of them; they despise their poor neighbours, and disdain to look upon them: and such also who have more knowledge and wisdom than others, or at least think so; they are puffed up in their fleshly minds, and say of the illiterate or less knowing, as the proud Pharisees did, "this people, who knoweth not the law, are cursed": and likewise those who fancy themselves more holy and righteous than others; these, in a scornful manner, say, "stand by thyself, I am holier than thou"; and thank God they are not as other men are, as publicans and sinners; see Proverbs 19:4. Hence Pliny (i) says, that in the eyebrows there is a part of the mind; those especially show haughtiness; that pride has a receptacle elsewhere, but here it has its seat; it is bred in the heart, but here it comes and here it hangs: wherefore Juvenal (k) calls pride and haughtiness, "grande supercilium"; and proud haughty persons are said to be supercilious.
(i) Nat. Hist. 1. 11. c. 37. (k) Satyr. 6. v. 168.

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