Proverbs 27:20
New International Version
Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.

New Living Translation
Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied.

English Standard Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

Berean Standard Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

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

New King James Version
Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

New American Standard Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, Nor are the eyes of a person ever satisfied.

NASB 1995
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

NASB 1977
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

Legacy Standard Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Amplified Bible
Sheol (the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the underworld) are never satisfied; Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

Christian Standard Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and people’s eyes are never satisfied.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and people’s eyes are never satisfied.

American Standard Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Sheol and destruction are not full, neither are the eyes of men satisfied.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Hell and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable. He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord; and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.

Contemporary English Version
Death and the grave are never satisfied, and neither are humans.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

English Revised Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and the eyes of man are never satisfied.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Hell and decay are never satisfied, and a person's eyes are never satisfied.

Good News Translation
Human desires are like the world of the dead--there is always room for more.

International Standard Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satiated, and neither are human eyes.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; So the eyes of man are never satiated.

Literal Standard Version
Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, | And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

Majority Standard Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

New American Bible
Sheol and Abaddon can never be satisfied; so the eyes of mortals can never be satisfied.

NET Bible
As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.

New Revised Standard Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.

New Heart English Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

World English Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Young's Literal Translation
Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

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Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
19As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man. 20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. 21A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.…

Cross References
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not from the Father but from the world.

Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD--how much more the hearts of men!

Proverbs 27:19
As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.

Proverbs 30:15
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, 'Enough!':

Proverbs 30:16
Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, 'Enough!'

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.


Treasury of Scripture

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

hell

Proverbs 30:15,16
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: …

Habakkuk 2:5
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

never

Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:10,11
And 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…

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(20) Hell and destruction.--See above on Proverbs 15:11.

The eyes of man are never satisfied.--Comp. Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 4:8. God would thus teach us that in Himself only can man find complete satisfaction. (Comp. Psalm 36:8-9; 1Corinthians 2:9.) . . .

Verse 20. - Hell and destruction are never full. "Hell" is sheol, the under-world, Hades, the place of the departed; "destruction" is the great depth, the second death, personified (see on Proverbs 15:11, where the terms also occur). These "are never satisfied," they are insatiable, all-devouring (comp. Proverbs 30:16; Isaiah 5:14; Habakkuk 2:5). So the eyes of man are never satisfied. The verb is the same in both clauses, and ought to have been so translated. The eye is taken as the representative of concupiscence in general. What is true of "the lust of the eyes" (1 John 2:16) is true of all the senses; the craving for their gratification grows as it is fed. Therefore the senses should be carefully guarded, lest they lead to excess and transgression. "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity," said the psalmist, "and quicken me in thy way" (Psalm 119:37). The LXX. here introduces a paragraph not in the Hebrew or the Latin Versions: "He that fixes (στηρίζων) his eye [i.e. staring impudently] is an abomination to the Lord, and the uninstructed restrain not their tongue."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Sheol
שְׁא֣וֹל (šə·’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

and Abaddon
וַ֭אֲבַדּוֹ (wa·’ă·ḇad·dōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 10: Destruction

are never
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

satisfied;
תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה (ṯiś·ba‘·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

so the eyes
וְעֵינֵ֥י (wə·‘ê·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - cdc
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

of man
הָ֝אָדָ֗ם (hā·’ā·ḏām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

are never
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

satisfied.
תִשְׂבַּֽעְנָה׃ (ṯiś·ba‘·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited


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