Proverbs 27:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
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“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 27:20 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- Proverbs 15:11Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD— how much more the hearts of men!
- Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
- Proverbs 30:15The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
- Proverbs 30:16Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
- Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
- Ecclesiastes 5:10He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
- Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
- Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Habakkuk 2:5and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
- 1 John 2:16For 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.
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