Proverbs 27:20 · KJV
“Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. {never: Heb. not}”
— Proverbs 27:20
As in water face {answereth} to face, so the heart of man to man.
{As} the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so {is} a man to his praise.
Proverbs 27 — Context
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
19As in water face {answereth} to face, so the heart of man to man.
20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. {never: Heb. not}
21{As} the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so {is} a man to his praise.
22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him.
Cross References
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.
1 John 2:16
For all that {is} in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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: {It is...: Heb. Wealth}
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}
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: {Yea...: or, How much more}
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.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one {alone}, and {there is} not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet {is there} no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither {saith he}, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This {is} also vanity, yea, it {is} a sore travail.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-11
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this {is} also vanity.