SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:20
¶ El sepulcro y la perdición nunca se sacian; así los ojos del hombre nunca están satisfechos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 27:20
Verse 20. Hell and destruction are never full ] How hideous must the soul of a covetous man be, when God compares it to hell and perdition! The eyes of man are never satisfied. - As the grave can never be filled up with bodies, nor perdition with souls; so the restless desire, the lust of power, riches, and splendour, is never satisfied. Out of this ever unsatisfied desire spring all the changing fashions, the varied amusements, and the endless modes of getting money, prevalent in every age, and in every country.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. Hell and destruction are never full , etc.] The grave, as the word used often signifies; and which may be called “destruction”, because bodies laid in it are soon corrupted and destroyed; and though bodies are cast into it and devoured by it, it is ready for more; it is one of the four things which never have enough. The place where Gog is said to be buried is called Hamongog, the multitude of Gog, ( Ezekiel 39:11); and by the Septuagint there Polyandrion, which is the name the Greeks give to a burying place, because many men are buried there; and with the Latins the dead are called Plures f761 , the many, or the more; and yet the grave is never satisfied with them, ( Proverbs 30:16). Or hell, the place of everlasting damnation and destruction, is meant, which has received multitudes of souls already, and where there is room for more, nor will it be full until the last day; so the eyes of man are never satisfied ; as not the eyes of his body with seeing corporeal objects, but still are desirous of seeing more, and indeed everything that is to be seen, and are never glutted, ( Ecclesiastes 1:8); so neither the eyes of the carnal mind, or the lusts of it, which are insatiable things, let the objects of them be what they will; as in an ambitious man, a covetous person, or an unclean one.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20 - Two things are here said to be never satisfied, death and sin. The appetites of the carnal mind for profit or pleasure are always desirin more. Those whose eyes are ever toward the Lord, are satisfied in him and shall for ever be so.
Original Hebrew
שׁאול 7585 ואבדה 10 לא 3808 תשׂבענה 7646 ועיני 5869 האדם 120 לא 3808 תשׂבענה׃ 7646
