Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, || And the eyes of man are not satisfied.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
In Context
19As [in] water the face [is] to face, || So the heart of man to man.
21A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, || And a man according to his praise.
Cross References
Job 26:6Sheol [is] naked before Him, || And there is no covering to destruction.
Proverbs 23:5For wealth makes wings to itself, || It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
Proverbs 30:16Sheol, and a restrained womb, || Earth—it [is] not satisfied [with] water, || And fire—it has not said, “Sufficiency,”
Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that my eyes asked I did not keep back from them; I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this has been my portion, from all my labor,
Ecclesiastes 5:10Whoever is loving silver is not satisfied [with] silver, nor he who is in love with stores [with] increase. Even this [is] vanity.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol has enlarged herself, || And has opened her mouth without limit. And its honor has gone down, and its multitude, || And its noise, and its exulting one—into 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 →