Proverbs 30:13 (BSB)

There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:13

• 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 30:13: 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...
• 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...