Proverbs 30:12 (BSB)

There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:10-14: Here is, I. A caution not to abuse other people's servants any more than our own, nor to make mischief between them and their masters, for it is an ill office, invidious, and what will make a man odious, Pro 30:10. Consider, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:12: There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,.... Not in the eyes of God, who sees the heart, and all the impurities of it, as well as of life and conversation; nor in the eyes of others, though such may appear outwardly righteous before men; but in their own eyes, in their own conceit and imagination, trusting in themselves that they are...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 30:11-14: Pro 30:11-14 There now follows a Priamel, the first line of which is, by יקלל, connected with the יקללך of the preceding distich: 11 A generation that curseth their father, And doth not bless their mother; 12 A generation pure in their own eyes, And yet not washed from their filthiness; 13 A generation - how haughty their eyes, And their eyelids lift themselves up...