Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
In Context
19As [in] water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
Cross References
Job 26:6Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Proverbs 23:5wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.
Proverbs 30:16Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And 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 from all my labour.
Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend [into it], and her multitude, and her tumult, and [all] that is joyful within her.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:20
19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. This shows us that there is a way, 1. Of knowing ourselves. As the water is a looking-glass in which we may see our faces by reflection, so there are mirrors by which the heart of a man is discovered to a man, that is, to himself. Let a man examine his own conscience, his thoughts, affections, and intentions. Let him behold his natural face in the glass of the divine law ( Jam. i. 23 ), and he may discern what kind of man he is and what is his true… Read the whole commentary →