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Proverbs 27

Prov. 27:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hell
sh'owl (Hebrew #7585)
from 7592; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.
Pronounce: sheh-ole'
Origin: or shol {sheh-ole'}
r and destruction
'abaddoh (Hebrew #10)
a perishing
KJV usage: destruction.
Pronounce: ab-ad-do'
Origin: the same as 9, miswritten for 11
'abaddown (Hebrew #11)
abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades
KJV usage: destruction.
Pronounce: ab-ad-done'
Origin: intensive from 6
are πnever
lo' (Hebrew #3808)
or loh (Deut. 3:11) {lo}; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles (as follows)
KJV usage: X before, + or else, ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (X as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, + of a truth, + verily, for want, + whether, without.
Pronounce: lo
Origin: or lowi {lo}
full
saba` (Hebrew #7646)
a primitive root; to sate, i.e. fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: have enough, fill (full, self, with), be (to the) full (of), have plenty of, be satiate, satisfy (with), suffice, be weary of.
Pronounce: saw-bah'
Origin: or sabeay {saw-bay'-ah}
; sos the eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
of man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
are never satisfied
saba` (Hebrew #7646)
a primitive root; to sate, i.e. fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: have enough, fill (full, self, with), be (to the) full (of), have plenty of, be satiate, satisfy (with), suffice, be weary of.
Pronounce: saw-bah'
Origin: or sabeay {saw-bay'-ah}
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Prov. 30:16• 16--Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough. (Prov. 30:16)
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not.
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Eccl. 1:8• 8All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. (Eccl. 1:8)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Hell.
Prov. 30:15‑16• 15The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:
 16--Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough. (Prov. 30:15‑16)
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Hab. 2:5• 5And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples. (Hab. 2:5)
never.
Heb. not.
so.
Prov. 23:5• 5wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens. (Prov. 23:5)
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Eccl. 1:8• 8All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. (Eccl. 1:8)
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Eccl. 2:10‑11• 10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.
 11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun. (Eccl. 2:10‑11)
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Eccl. 5:10‑11• 10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
 11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes? (Eccl. 5:10‑11)
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Eccl. 6:7• 7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. (Eccl. 6:7)
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Jer. 22:17• 17But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)
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1 John 2:16• 16because 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. (1 John 2:16)
• The natural heart will not permit the eyes to be satisfied. There is in man a capacity likened to sheol and destruction. Let him get all he may, he still yearns for more. This is the great lesson of the book of Ecclesiastes. There, we find a man with a heart so large that all the world could not fill it. In the Canticles, on the other hand, we have an Object so great that the heart cannot hold it, but the cry goes up, “I am sick of love.” (“Proverbs Twenty-Seven” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Sheol and destructiond are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

JND Translation Notes

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As ch. 15.11; Job 26.6.