Proverbs 27:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.

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  • Prov 15:11
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    11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

  • Prov 30:15-16
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    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.

  • Job 26:6
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    6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

  • Eccl 1:8
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    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.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • Isa 5:14
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    14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

  • Prov 27:19
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    19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

  • Prov 27:21
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    21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

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  • Job 3:21
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    21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

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    48 Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.

  • Eccl 5:10-11
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    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.

  • Hab 2:5
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    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.

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    20 With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.

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    25 And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Job 20:20-22
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    20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

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    20 Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

  • Job 24:19
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    19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • Prov 9:18
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    18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

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    27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

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    19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

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    16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

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    20 But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

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    3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

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    10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

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    24 And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

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    7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24 Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

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    14 He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

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    12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

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    14 The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

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    35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

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    27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

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