Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never full; 1 So the eyes of man are never satisfied. 1
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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, 1 So the heart of man to man. 1
21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; 1 So is a man to his praise. 1
Cross References
Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, 1 And destruction hath no covering. 1
Proverbs 23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? 1 For riches certainly make themselves wings; 1 They fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 1
Proverbs 30:16The grave; and the barren womb; 1 The earth that is not filled with water; 1 And the fire that saith not, It is enough. 1
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 of all my labour.
Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, 1 And opened her mouth without measure: 1 And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, 1 And he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 1
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 →