Proverbs 27:20
The nether world and the place of corruption are never satisfied: so are the eyes of man never satisfied.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
In Context
Cross References
Job 26:6Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption.
Proverbs 23:5When thou lettest merely thy eyes fly over it, it is no more: for it will ever make itself wings: like an eagle will it fly toward heaven.
Proverbs 30:16The nether world; and a barren womb; the earth which is not satisfied with water; and the fire which never saith, Enough.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever my eyes desired I refused them not; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart was rejoiced with all my toil, and this was my portion of all my toil.
Ecclesiastes 5:10(5:9) He that loveth money will never be satisfied with money; nor he that loveth abundance, with any increase. Also this is vanity.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore hath the deep enlarged her desire, and opened her mouth without measure: and there descend [Jerusalem's] glory, and her multitude, and her noise, and whoever rejoiced therein.
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 →