Proverbs 27:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Hell and destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The grave and the underworld are never satisfied; and people’s eyes are never satisfied.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Hell and perdition are never filled; similarly the eyes of men are insatiable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Proverbs 27:20 Cross References

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before him, And Abaddon hath no covering.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon are before the LORD: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Proverbs 23:5

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

Proverbs 27:19

As in water face answereth to face, So the heart of man to man.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore hell hath enlarged her desire, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it.

Jeremiah 22:17

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.

Habakkuk 2:5

Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer, a haughty man, and that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as hell, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

Haggai 1:9

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 lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.