Proverbs 27:20

“Men's cupidity is as insatiable as the grave.”

“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. return to 'Top of Page'”

“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. Proverbs 27:21”

“27:20 Death and Destruction: See study note on 15:11. • Human desire is never satisfied by money, power, or pleasure.”

“Hell: Pro 30:15, Pro 30:16; Hab 2:5 never: Heb. not so: Pro 23:5; Ecc 1:8, Ecc 2:10, Ecc 2:11, Ecc 5:10, Ecc 5:11, Ecc 6:7; Jer 22:17; Jo1 2:16 Proverbs 27:21”

“The following proverb has, in common with the preceding, the catchword האדם, and the emphatic repetition of the same expression: 20 The under-world and hell are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied. A Kerı̂ ואבדון is here erroneously noted by Lwenstein, Stuart, and others. The Kerı̂ to ואבדּה is here ואבדּו, which secures the right utterance of the ending, and is altogether wanting (Note: In Gesen. Lex. this אבדה stands to the present day under אבדה.) in many MSS (e.g., Cod. Jaman). The stripping off of the ן from the ending ון is common in the names of persons and places (e.g., שׁלמה, lxx Σολομών and שׁלה); we write at pleasure either ow or oh (e.g., מגדּו), Olsh. 215g.…”