Proverbs 27:20 Cross References

Proverbs 27:20

20: Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

  1. Everything is so weary and tiresome! No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.

Proverbs 30:15

  1. The leech has two suckers that cry out, "More, more!" There are three other things--no, four!--that are never satisfied:
  2. the grave, the barren womb, the thirsty desert, the blazing fire.

Habakkuk 2:5

  1. Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They range far and wide, with their mouths opened as wide as death, but they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and peoples.

1 John 2:16

  1. For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

  1. All people spend their lives scratching for food, but they never seem to have enough.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

  1. Anything I wanted, I took. I did not restrain myself from any joy. I even found great pleasure in hard work, an additional reward for all my labors.
  2. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

Proverbs 15:11

  1. Even the depths of Death and Destruction are known by the LORD. How much more does he know the human heart!

Jeremiah 22:17

  1. "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."

Ecclesiastes 5:10

  1. Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness!
  2. The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what is the advantage of wealth--except perhaps to watch it run through your fingers!

Ecclesiastes 4:8

  1. This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.

Proverbs 23:5

  1. For riches can disappear as though they had the wings of a bird!

Job 26:6

  1. The underworld is naked in God's presence. There is no cover for the place of destruction.
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