King James Version
Proverbs 30:13 in the King James Version says “There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.”
Proverbs 30:13 · KJV
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
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 needy from among men.
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: It is: Heb. Wealth
KJV Study — Public Domain
“There is a generation”
H1755properly, a revolution of time, i.e., an age or generation; also a dwelling
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“O how lofty”
H7311to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
“are their eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“are lifted up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
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