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 reference). Yet one thing is equally so, the lust of the eye, the restless craving which grows with what it feeds on Ecclesiastes 1:8.
Verse Proverbs 27:20. _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._] A...
V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the phrases “My son” and the persona...
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverbs 27:4 a...
HELL. Sheol. App-35....
_Hell and destruction_ See Proverbs 15:11, note. _full_ Rather, SATISFIED, the Heb. word being the same as at the end of the verse. Comp. Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 4:8....
TEXT Proverbs 27:19-27 19. As in water face answereth face, So the heart of man to man. 20. Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. 21. The refining pot...
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. HELL AND DESTRUCTION (NOTE, ) ARE NEVER FULL; SO THE EYES OF MAN ARE NEVER SATISFIED - (; ;...
27:20 destruction (d-3) As ch. 15.11; Job 26:6 ....
SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS. AGRICULTURE 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant (Song of Solomon 8:6). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
Nothing satisfies a man’s desires. And nothing can satisfy death and hell. Only Jesus can completely satisfy human desires (John 4:13-14). But as Christians, we must learn to be content. See Philippi...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow. You do not know what will happen tomorrow....
HELL AND DESTRUCTION. — See above on Proverbs 15:11. THE EYES OF MAN ARE NEVER SATISFIED. — Comp. Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 4:8. God would thus teach us that in Himself only can man find complete...
שְׁאֹ֣ול _וַ֭_†_אֲבַדֹּו_† לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה וְ עֵינֵ֥י...
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men ar...
“HEARTY COUNSEL” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29. Friends, according to the original se...
Verse Proverbs 27:5. This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
_Destruction. Hebrew abaddo, or abadon, chap. xv. 11., and Apocalypse ix. 11. People die, and are plunged in hell daily. --- Eyes. Avarice and ambition, Ecclesiasticus xiv. 9._...
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. Take his garment tha...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
HELL AND DESTRUCTION ARE NEVER FULL,.... 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 bodi...
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. Ver. 20. _Hell and destruction are never satisfied._] Hell and the grave have their name in Hebrew from their unsatisfiabl...
_Hell and destruction are never full_ The grave devours all the bodies which are put into it, and is always ready to receive and devour more and more without end; _so the eyes of man are never satisfi...
WISDOM AND HUMILITY GO HAND IN HAND...
Hell and destruction are never full, the grave and the realm of the dead are insatiable, they never have enough; SO THE EYES OF MAN, of him who has given way to covetousness, ARE NEVER SATISFIED, the...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
NEVER: _ Heb._ not...
HELL AND DESTRUCTION ARE NEVER FULL; the grave devours all the bodies which are put into it, and is always ready to receive and devour more and more without end. THE EYES, i.e. the desires, which work...
Proverbs 27:20 Hell H7585 Destruction H11 (H8675) H10 never H3808 full H7646 (H8799) eyes H5869
GRAVE Also; (Proverbs 30:16), Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth._ Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what sh...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee._ A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:19 Just as WATER reflects a person’s actual appearance, so the HEART reflects a person’s true nature (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 27:20. HELL AND DESTRUCTION, rather “_the world of the dead_.” EYES. Some understand the reference to be to the insatiableness of human passion. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverb...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 27:1 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. PROVERBS 27:1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself ...
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1). Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New Testament book of James. He said, "Go t...
1 John 2:16; Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 2:10; Ecclesiastes 2:11;...
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE Proverbs 27:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament w...
Hell — The grave devours all the bodies which are put into it, and is always ready to receive and devour more. The eyes — The desires, which discover themselves by the eyes....