Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Hades and destruction shall not be satisfied; and the eyes of man shall not be 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.
A Conservative Version
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied.
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.
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 to face, so the heart of man to man. 20 Hades and destruction shall not be satisfied; and the eyes of man shall not be satisfied. 21 The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man to the mouth praising him.
Cross References
Proverbs 30:15-16
To the leech two daughters: Give, give. Behold, three shall not satisfied; four shall not say, Wealth:
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing.
Habakkuk 2:5
And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man for his mouth, and also the soul shall not be filled.
Job 26:6
Hades is naked before him, and no covering to destruction.
Proverbs 15:11
Hades and destruction are before Jehovah: much more the hearts of the sons of man.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-11
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
Jeremiah 22:17
For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do.
1 John 2:16
For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.