Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
In Context
19As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
21A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.
Cross References
Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Proverbs 30:16Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
Ecclesiastes 2:10Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 5:10He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
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 →