13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
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A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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, Prov. 30:10. Consider, 1. It is an injury to the servant, whose poor condition makes him an object of pity, and therefore it is barbarous to add affliction to him that is afflicted: Hurt not a ser…
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