Verse 20

The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.

Referenced Verses

• Eccl 1:8 : 8 All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
• Hab 2:5 : 5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
• Prov 30:15-16 : 15 The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough: 16 The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
• Eccl 2:10-11 : 10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward. 11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
• Eccl 6:7 : 7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
• Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
• Job 26:6 : 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
• Prov 15:11 : 11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
• Prov 23:5 : 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
• Eccl 4:8 : 8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
• Eccl 5:10-11 : 10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them? 11 The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
• 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.