Proverbs 27:20
The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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.
21The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.
Cross References
Job 26:6The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.
Proverbs 23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
Proverbs 30:16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that saith not: 'Enough.'
Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart had joy of all my labour; and this was my portion from all my labour.
Ecclesiastes 5:10(5-9) He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase; this also is vanity.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore the nether-world hath enlarged her desire, and opened her mouth without measure; and down goeth their glory, and their tumult, and their uproar, and he that rejoiceth among them.
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 →