THEOSISProverbs 27:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.
שְׁא֣וֹל ואבדה וַ֭אֲבַדּוֹ לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה וְעֵינֵ֥י הָ֝אָדָ֗ם לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּֽעְנָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 1:8All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.
- 1 John 2:16For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.
- Prov 30:15The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.
- Prov 30:16Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.
- Eccl 6:7All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
- Hab 2:5And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people.
- Eccl 2:10And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
- Eccl 2:11And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.