Proverbs 27:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon  are never satisfied, and people’s eyes 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 Tagairtí Cros

Job 26:6

Sheol  is naked before God, and Abaddon  has no covering.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the  Lord    – how much more, human hearts.

Proverbs 23:5

As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Proverbs 27:19

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

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things  are wearisome, more than anyone can say. The eye is not satisfied by seeing or the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All of a person’s labour is for his stomach,  , yet the appetite is never satisfied.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses, her crowds, and those who celebrate in her!

Jeremiah 22:17

But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, wine   betrays; an arrogant man is never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself; he collects all the peoples for himself.

Haggai 1:9

‘You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined  it. Why? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. ‘Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

1 John 2:16

For everything in the world #– #the lust of the flesh,  the lust of the eyes,  and the pride  in one’s possessions #– #is not from the Father, but is from the world.