Proverbs 27:20

All About Life

¹⁹ Just as water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the person. ²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon are never satiated, and neither are human eyes. ²¹ As the crucible tests silver, and the furnace assays gold; so praise received tests a man.

Hell and Destruction

Death And Destruction

Sheol And Abaddon

Abaddon

Hades

Sheol

Proverbs 30:15-16

The leech has two daughters: "Give" and "Give". Three things will never be satisfied; four will never say "Enough" -

Ecclesiastes 1:8

Everything is wearisome, more than man is able to express. The eye is never satisfied by seeing, nor the ear by hearing.

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, just as wine leads astray the proud and powerful man, he remains restless; he has expanded his appetite like the afterlife or death itself, he is never satisfied. He gathers to himself all of the nations, taking captive all of the people for himself."

Ecclesiastes 6:7

Every person works for his own self-interests, but his desires remain unsatisfied.

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God and Abaddon has no clothes.

Proverbs 15:11

Since Sheol and Abaddon lie open in the LORD's presence, how much more the hearts of human beings!

Proverbs 23:5

When you fix your gaze on it, it's gone, for it sprouts wings for itself and flies to the sky like an eagle.

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

Whenever I wanted something I had seen, I never refused that desire. Instead, I enjoyed everything I did, and this became the reward in what I had undertaken.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

Consider someone who is alone, having neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his work, and he is never satisfied with wealth. "So for whom do I work," he asks, "and deprive myself of pleasure?" This, too, is pointless and a terrible tragedy.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

Whoever loves money will never have enough money. Whoever loves luxury will not be content with abundance. This also is pointless.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are on nothing but your dishonest gain, shedding the blood of innocent people, and practicing oppression and extortion."

1 John 2:16

For everything that is in the world the desire for fleshly gratification, the desire for possessions, and worldly arrogance is not from the Father but is from the world.