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Proverbs 27:20

Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,.... As the manna was, Num 11:8; and as wheat beat and bruised in a mortar, or ground in a mill, retains its own nature; so, let…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Hades, the world of the dead, and Destruction (Death, the destroying power, personified) have been at all times and in all countries thought of as all-devouring, insatiable (compare the marginal…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Two things are here said to be insatiable, and they are two things near of kin - death and sin. 1. Death is insatiable. The first death, the second death, both are so. The grave is not clogged with…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Hell and destruction See Pro 15:11, note.

full Rather, satisfied, the Heb. word being the same as at the end of the verse. Comp. Ecc 1:8; Ecc 4:8.