Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 27:20 in other translations
| BSB | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
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| WEB | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied. |
| ASV | Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
| YLT | Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied. |
| DARBY | Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
| BBE | The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough. |
| Webster | Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. |
What does Proverbs 27:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Proverbs 27:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 27:20
- Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
- 1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
- Proverbs 30:15-16
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
- Habakkuk 2:5
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
- Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
- Ecclesiastes 5:10-11
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
- Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- Proverbs 15:11
Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
- Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
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Context
- Proverbs 27:19
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
- Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
- Proverbs 27:21
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Proverbs 27:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El sepulcro y la perdición nunca se hartan: así los ojos del hombre nunca están satisfechos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le shéol et l’abîme sont insatiables, et les yeux de l’homme sont insatiables. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Scheol und Abgrund sind unersättlich: so sind unersättlich die Augen des Menschen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Infernus et perditio numquam implentur: similiter et oculi hominum insatiabiles. |