Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Updated King James 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 face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.
21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Cross References
Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
Proverbs 23:5Will you set yours eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 30:16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.
Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Isaiah 5:14Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, shall descend 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 →