Proverbs 30:12 those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

English Standard Version
There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

New American Standard Bible
There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes, Yet is not washed from his filthiness.

King James Bible
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth.

International Standard Version
Some people view themselves as pure, but haven't been cleansed from their own filth.

American Standard Version
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Darby Bible Translation
there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;

Young's Literal Translation
A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

Cross References

Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you, that I am not as other men are, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Titus 1:15
To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.

Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

Isaiah 65:5
Which say, Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

30:10 Slander not a servant to his master, accuse him not in small matters, to make mischief. 11-14. In every age there are monsters of ingratitude who ill-treat their parents. Many persuade themselves they are holy persons, whose hearts are full of sin, and who practise secret wickedness. There are others whose lofty pride is manifest. There have also been cruel monsters in every age. 15-17. Cruelty and covetousness are two daughters of the horseleech, that still cry, Give, give, and they are continually uneasy to themselves. Four things never are satisfied, to which these devourers are compared. Those are never rich that are always coveting. And many who have come to a bad end, have owned that their wicked courses began by despising their parents' authority. 18-20. Four things cannot be fully known. The kingdom of nature is full of marvels. The fourth is a mystery of iniquity; the cursed arts by which a vile seducer gains the affections of a female; and the arts which a vile woman uses to conceal her wickedness. 21-23 Four sorts of persons are very troublesome. Men of low origin and base spirit, who, getting authority, become tyrants. Foolish and violent men indulging in excesses. A woman of a contentious spirit and vicious habits. A servant who has obtained undue influence. Let those whom Providence has advanced from low beginnings, carefully watch against that sin which most easily besets them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11-14. Four kinds of hateful persons—(1) graceless children, (2) hypocrites, (3) the proud, (4) cruel oppressors (compare on Pr 30:14; Ps 14:4; 52:2)—are now illustrated; (1) Pr 30:15, 16, the insatiability of prodigal children and their fate; (2) Pr 30:17, hypocrisy, or the concealment of real character; (3 and 4) Pr 30:18-20, various examples of pride and oppression.