Proverbs 27:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hell and destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Sheol (the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the place of destruction) are never satisfied; so [the lust of] the eyes of man is never satisfied. [Prov. 30:16; Hab. 2:5.] American Standard Version (1901) Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. Common English Bible The grave and the underworld are never satisfied; and people’s eyes are never satisfied. Catholic Public Domain Version Hell and perdition are never filled; similarly the eyes of men are insatiable. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied. |
Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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 labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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.
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
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.