Proverbs 27:20 (BSB)

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:20: Two things are here said to be insatiable, and they are two things near of kin - death and sin. 1. Death is insatiable. The first death, the second death, both are so. The grave is not clogged with the multitude of dead bodies that are daily thrown into it, but is still an open sepulchre, and cries, Give, give.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:20: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,.... As the manna was, Num 11:8; and as wheat beat and bruised in a mortar, or ground in a mill, retains its own nature; so, let a wicked man be used ever so roughly or severely, by words, admonitions, reproofs, and counsels; or by deeds, by corrections and punishment, by hard...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:20: Men's cupidity is as insatiable as the grave.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:20: Pro 27:20 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 Löwenstein, Stuart, and others.