Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Proverbs 30:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
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Quick Meaning
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 30:10–14
Proverbs 30:10–14 is the required frame for Proverbs 30:12. Here the saying contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness”; its collection setting controls whether the words describe a pattern, warning, invitation, or bounded command.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This line follows the unit's earlier saying and prepares its later turn; it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness”. Its value is contextual rather than slogan-like.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet...”
In plain language: humility, teachability, pride, and reputation
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness”.
Why it matters: This wording gives the verse its distinct role inside the cluster.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Teachability and truthful self-knowledge are safer than status-protection, self-exaltation, or contempt for correction. In Proverbs 30:12, that bounded truth is expressed through “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet...,” not through a promise detached from its literary form.
How It Can Shape Life
- Invite specific feedback, test your assumptions, share credit, and repair the effects of pride rather than performing modesty. For Proverbs 30:12, preserve the sequence: verse role (contributes the claim, image, or instruction “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness”) -> contextual meaning in Proverbs 30:10–14 -> proportionate truth -> this accountable response.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 30:10–14 — Humility, teachability, pride, and reputation — Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee,...Sources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
The verse belongs to a larger speech, instruction, prayer, number saying, or poem; its voice and complete literary movement control how strongly an isolated line may be stated.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 30:10–14, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 30:10-30:14
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.
Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1178-1181, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 30:10–14
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