Proverbs 27:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

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  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 All things are full of labor; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:
  • Prov 30:15-16 : 15 The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, indeed four that say not, It is enough: 16 The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.
  • Eccl 2:10-11 : 10 And whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 6:7 : 7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
  • Job 26:6 : 6 Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD; how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men?
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one alone, without a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother, yet there is no end to all his labor, nor is his eye satisfied with riches, nor does he ask, 'For whom do I labor and deprive my soul of good?' This is also vanity, yes, it is a grievous toil.
  • Eccl 5:10-11 : 10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase; this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they who eat them increase, and what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 15:11
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    11Hell and destruction are before the LORD; how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men?

  • Prov 30:15-16
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    76%

    15The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, indeed four that say not, It is enough:

    16The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.

  • Job 26:6
    75%

    6Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering.

  • Eccl 1:8
    74%

    8All things are full of labor; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

  • Eccl 6:7
    73%

    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

  • Isa 5:14
    73%

    14Therefore hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices, shall descend into it.

  • Prov 27:19
    71%

    19As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man mirrors man.

  • Prov 27:21
    70%

    21As the refining pot tests silver, and the furnace tests gold, so a man is tested by his praise.

  • Mark 9:46
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    46Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

  • Job 3:21
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    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

  • Mark 9:48
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    48Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

  • Eccl 5:10-11
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    69%

    10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase; this also is vanity.

    11When goods increase, they who eat them increase, and what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

  • Hab 2:5
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    5Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:

  • Prov 18:20
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    20A man's stomach will be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; he will be filled with the produce of his lips.

  • Mark 9:44
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    44Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

  • Job 21:25
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    25Another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire: this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The full soul loathes honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Job 20:20-22
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    69%

    20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save anything of what he desired.

    21None of his food shall be left; therefore no one shall look for his goods.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

  • Job 21:20
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    20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Job 24:19
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    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does the grave those who have sinned.

  • Prov 9:18
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    18But he does not know that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

  • Prov 16:27
    67%

    27An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.

  • Job 27:19
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    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

  • Job 15:16
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    16How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

  • Job 11:20
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    20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.

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    10The wicked shall see it and be grieved; he shall gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

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    24And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

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    7Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish.

  • Prov 15:24
    66%

    24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall lack.

  • Prov 14:14
    66%

    14The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from himself.

  • Prov 1:12
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    12Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Job 28:14
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    14The depth says, 'It is not in me'; and the sea says, 'It is not with me.'

  • Job 20:11
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    11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Prov 6:35
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    35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he be content, though you give many gifts.

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    66%

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

  • Ps 107:9
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    9For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

  • Job 22:5
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    5Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite?

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    20Our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

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    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.