Sheol, Abaddon, and the eye of man are three things that never reach sufficient.
Two things that are never satisfied are named in Proverbs 27:20: Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied (v. 20).
Sheol, the place of the dead, and Abaddon, the place of destruction, never reach a point where they say enough. Death keeps receiving without limit.
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied. The human eye is the same. The man who has obtained one thing immediately wants the next. The eye sees, the heart wants, the hand reaches. The pattern repeats without ever arriving at sufficient. Ecclesiastes 1:8 names the same thing: "The eye is not satisfied with seeing." The verse warns the wise man to watch his own eyes carefully, because they are made the way Sheol is made: always reaching, never full.
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Proverbs 27:20 meaning
Two things that are never satisfied are named in Proverbs 27:20: Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied (v. 20).
Sheol, the place of the dead, and Abaddon, the place of destruction, never reach a point where they say enough. Death keeps receiving without limit.
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied. The human eye is the same. The man who has obtained one thing immediately wants the next. The eye sees, the heart wants, the hand reaches. The pattern repeats without ever arriving at sufficient. Ecclesiastes 1:8 names the same thing: "The eye is not satisfied with seeing." The verse warns the wise man to watch his own eyes carefully, because they are made the way Sheol is made: always reaching, never full.