Proverbs 27:20
The realms of the dead are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Noyes Bible
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 doth the heart of man to man.
Cross References
Job 26:6The under-world is naked before him, And destruction is without covering.
Proverbs 23:5Wilt thou let thine eyes fly toward them? They are gone! For riches truly make to themselves wings; They fly away like the eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 30:16The underworld, and the barren womb; The earth, which is not satiated with water, And fire, which never saith, “It is enough!”
Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced by means of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and he that loveth riches shall have no profit from them. This also is vanity.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore doth the under-world enlarge its greedy throat, And stretch open its mouth without measure, And down go her nobility and her wealth, Her busy throng, and all that was joyful within 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 →