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Proverbs 27:20 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 27 · verse 20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.Proverbs 27:20 · King James Version
Proverbs 27:20 in context
18Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
19As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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Key words (Strong's)
- destructionʼăbaddôwnabstract, a perishingH11 →
- destructionʼăbaddôha perishingH10 →
- neverlôʼnotH3808 →
- HellshᵉʼôwlHades or the world of the dead , including its accessories and inmatesH7585 →
- fullsâbaʻto sateH7646 →
- eyesʻayinan eyeH5869 →
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Two things are here said to be insatiable, and they are two things near of kin - death and sin. 1. Death is insatiable. The first death, the second death, both are so. The grave is not clogged with the multitude of dead bodies that are daily thrown into it, but is still an open sepulchre, and cries, Give, give.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary