Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not 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.
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.
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 the face is to face, So the heart of man to man. 20 Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied. 21 A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.
Cross References
Proverbs 30:15-16
To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
Habakkuk 2:5
And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.
Job 26:6
Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.
Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah, Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.
Proverbs 23:5
For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-11
Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.
Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.
1 John 2:16
because all that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,