Proverbs 27:20

It is as though the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to die and come there; and humans [SYN] are always wanting to acquire more things, too.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

In Context

19When a person looks in the water, he sees his own face; similarly [SIM], when we look at a person’s behavior, we know what he is thinking.

21Workers put silver and gold in a very hot furnace to burn out what is impure, and [SIM] people learn what we are really like when they see how we react when people praise us.

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Cross References

Job 26:6God knows all about those who are in the place of the dead; there is nothing down there that prevents God from seeing what is there.

Proverbs 23:5because as soon as you look [MTY] at all the money that you have acquired, it will be gone; it will disappear as if it suddenly grew wings [SIM] and flew up into the sky like an eagle.

Proverbs 30:16The place where the dead people are; women who do not have any children; ground that needs water/rain; and a fire that always needs more wood.

Ecclesiastes 2:10I got everything [LIT] that I [SYN] saw and wanted. I did everything [LIT] that I thought would enable me to be happy. All those things that I [SYN] enjoyed were like a reward for all my hard work.

Ecclesiastes 5:10Everyone who tries to get as much money as they can will never think that they have enough. They will never be satisfied with the money that they have. That also is senseless.

Isaiah 5:14It is as though [PRS] the place where the dead people are is eagerly looking for more Israeli people, opening its mouth to swallow them, and a huge number of people will be thrown into that place, including their leaders as well as a noisy crowd of people who enjoy living in Jerusalem.

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 →

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