Proverbs 27:20

New Century Version

People will never stop dying and being destroyed, and they will never stop wanting more than they have.

Cross References

Job 26:6

Death is naked before God; destruction is uncovered before him.

Proverbs 15:11

The Lord knows what is happening in the world of the dead, so he surely knows the thoughts of the living.

Proverbs 23:5

Wealth can vanish in the wink of an eye. It can seem to grow wings and fly away like an eagle.

Proverbs 27:19

As water reflects your face, so your mind shows what kind of person you are.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

Everything is boring, so boring that you don’t even want to talk about it. Words come again and again to our ears, but we never hear enough, nor can we ever really see all we want to see.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

I saw a man who had no family, no son or brother. He always worked hard but was never satisfied with what he had. He never asked himself, “For whom am I working so hard? Why don’t I let myself enjoy life?” This also is very sad and useless.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

People work just to feed themselves, but they never seem to get enough to eat.

Isaiah 5:14

So the place of the dead wants more and more people, and it opens wide its mouth. Jerusalem’s important people and common people will go down into it, with their happy and noisy ones.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But you only look for and think about what you can get dishonestly. You are even willing to kill innocent people to get it. You feel free to hurt people and to steal from them.”

Habakkuk 2:5

“Just as wine can trick a person, those who are too proud will not last, because their desire is like a grave’s desire for death, and like death they always want more. They gather other nations for themselves and collect for themselves all the countries.

Haggai 1:9

“You look for much, but you find little. When you bring it home, I destroy it. Why?” asks the Lord All-Powerful. “Because you all work hard for your own houses while my house is still in ruins!

1 John 2:16

These are the ways of the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. None of these come from the Father, but all of them come from the world.