Proverbs 27:20

World English Bible (2000)

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
  • Prov 30:15-16 : 15 "The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, 'Enough:' 16 Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'
  • Eccl 2:10-11 : 10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. 11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 6:7 : 7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Job 26:6 : 6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
  • 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, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his 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, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 15:11
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    11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

  • Prov 30:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 "The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, 'Enough:'

    16 Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

  • Job 26:6
    75%

    6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

  • Eccl 1:8
    74%

    8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

  • Eccl 6:7
    73%

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

  • Isa 5:14
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    14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

  • Prov 27:19
    71%

    19 As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.

  • Prov 27:21
    70%

    21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

  • Mark 9:46
    70%

    46 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

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

  • Mark 9:48
    69%

    48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • Eccl 5:10-11
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    69%

    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, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

  • Hab 2:5
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    5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

  • Prov 18:20
    69%

    20 A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

  • Mark 9:44
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    44 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'

  • Job 21:25
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    25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7 A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Job 20:20-22
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    20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

    21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

    22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

  • Job 21:20
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    20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Job 24:19
    68%

    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

  • Prov 9:18
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    18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27 A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

  • Job 27:19
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    19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

  • Job 15:16
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    16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

  • Job 11:20
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    20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is an evil in all that is 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.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Isa 66:24
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    24 "They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."

  • Ps 73:7
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    7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

  • Prov 15:24
    66%

    24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

  • Prov 14:14
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    14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

  • Prov 1:12
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    12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

  • Job 28:14
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    14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

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

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • Prov 6:35
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    35 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

  • Job 20:27
    66%

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

  • Ps 107:9
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    9 For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

  • Job 22:5
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    5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

  • Job 22:20
    66%

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  • Job 20:9
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    9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.