Proverbs 27:20

The Scriptures 1998

The grave and destruction are not satisfied; So the eyes of man are not satisfied.

Cross References

Job 26:6

The grave is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering.

Proverbs 15:11

The grave and destruction are before יהוה, How much more the hearts of the sons of men.

Proverbs 23:5

Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens.

Proverbs 27:19

As in water face reflects face, So a man’s heart reflects a man.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All matters are wearisome, no one is able to speak of it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore the grave has made itself wide and opened its mouth beyond measure. Their splendour and their crowd and their uproar, and he who is exulting within her, shall go down into it.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

Habakkuk 2:5

“And also, because wine betrays him, a man is proud, and he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his appetite as the grave, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, and gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples.

Haggai 1:9

“When you looked for much, then see, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I would blow on it. Why?” declares יהוה  of hosts. “Because of My House which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.

1 John 2:16

Because all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.