Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable. + 27:20 Heb. omits to ver 21. He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord; and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
In Context
19As faces are not like other faces, so neither are the thoughts of men.
Cross References
Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
Proverbs 23:5If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
Proverbs 30:16The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatever my eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth: for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 5:10In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the right of beholding it with his eyes?
Isaiah 5:14Therefore + 5:14 Gr. Hades. hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it.
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 →