Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 30:13
[There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Verse 13. The third, Those who were full of vanity, pride, and insolence.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Who are proud and insolent, advancing themselves, and despising all others in comparison of themselves, and showing the pride of their hearts in their countenances and carriages.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
[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 Pr 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Pro 30:13 [There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Ver. 13. Oh how lofty are their eyes. ] The eyes are the seat of pride and disdain, which peep out at these windows. The Hebrews have a saying, that a man’s mind is soonest seen in oculis, in loculis, in poculis, in his eyes, expenses, cups. See Pro 6:17 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Pro 6:17, Pro 21:4, Psa 101:5, Psa 131:1, Isa 2:11, Isa 3:16, Eze 28:2-5, Eze 28:9, Dan 11:36, Dan 11:37, Hab 2:4, 2Th 2:3, 2Th 2:4
Reciprocal: 1Sa 15:13 – I have performed 2Ki 19:22 – exalted thy voice Est 6:6 – To whom Psa 10:4 – the pride Psa 73:8 – corrupt Isa 3:9 – The show Isa 10:12 – the glory Isa 37:23 – against whom Jer 48:29 – his loftiness Eze 2:6 – though they Hos 5:5 – the pride Hab 2:5 – a proud man