Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

New American Standard Bible

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
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.

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 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

H11
אבדּון 
'abaddown 
Usage: 5


Usage: 0

שׂבע שׂבע 
Saba` 
Usage: 98

so the eyes
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

of man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

All About Life

19 As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man answers to man. 20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. 21 As the refining pot for silver and the furnace for gold, so is a man to his praise.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:15-16

The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough!

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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

Habakkuk 2:5

And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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

Job 26:6

Hell is naked before Him, and the Pit has no covering.

Proverbs 15:11

Hell and destruction are before Jehovah; even more the hearts of the sons of men.

Proverbs 23:5

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

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 part of all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

1 John 2:16

because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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