Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied.
New American Standard Bible
Nor are the
King James Version
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Holman Bible
and people’s eyes are never satisfied.
International Standard Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satiated, and neither are human eyes.
American Standard Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Amplified
Sheol (the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the underworld) are never satisfied;
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.
Bible in Basic English
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
Darby Translation
Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Julia Smith Translation
Hades and destruction shall not be satisfied; and the eyes of man shall not be satisfied.
King James 2000
Sheol and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied [either].
Modern King James verseion
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as hell and destruction are never full, even so the eyes of men can never be satisfied.
NET Bible
As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.
New Heart English Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.
The Emphasized Bible
Hades and destruction, are not satisfied, and, the eyes of a man, are not satisfied.
Webster
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
World English Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.
Youngs Literal Translation
Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.
Themes
Eye » Figurative » Of evil desire, never satisfied
Eyes » Not satisfied with seeing
Hell » In the rv the word "sheol" itself occurs in the following scriptures
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
19 As in water face [is] to face, so the heart of a man [is] to a man. 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied. 21 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is [tried] by his praise.
Cross References
Proverbs 30:15-16
The leach has two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, [yea], four that do not say, Enough:
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness, man cannot utter [it]. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Habakkuk 2:5
Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) [He is] a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before [God], and Abaddon has no covering.
Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon are before LORD. How much more then the hearts of the sons of men!
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-11
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.