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- Proverbs
- Chapter 27
- Verse 20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
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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…
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…
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…
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.
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