Proverbs 27:20

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Job 26:6

Naked before him is Sheol, and Abaddon has no covering.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord; how much more the hearts of mortals!

Proverbs 23:5

When your glance flits to it, it is gone! For assuredly it grows wings, like the eagle that flies toward heaven.

Proverbs 27:19

As face mirrors face in water, so the heart reflects the person.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome, too wearisome for words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing nor has the ear enough of hearing.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

those all alone with no companion, with neither child nor sibling—with no end to all their toil, and no satisfaction from riches. For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good things? This also is vanity and a bad business.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is never satisfied.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens its mouth beyond measure; Down into it go nobility and masses, tumult and revelry.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own gain, On shedding innocent blood and practicing oppression and extortion.

Habakkuk 2:5

Indeed wealth is treacherous; a proud man does not succeed. He who opens wide his throat like Sheol, and is insatiable as death, Who gathers to himself all the nations, and collects for himself all the peoples—

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but it came to little; and what you brought home, I blew away. Why is this?—oracle of the Lord of hosts— Because my house is the one which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to your own house.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world.