Pro 27:20 | NETfull | STEP | As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.

Proverbs 27:20

20 As ^{▼▼ The term “as” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation in light of the analogy.} Death and Destruction are never satisfied, ^{▼▼ Countless generations of people have gone into the world below; yet “death” is never satisfied – it always takes more. The line personifies Death and Destruction. It forms the emblem in the parallelism.}
so the eyes of a person ^{▼▼ Heb “eyes of a man.” This expression refers to the desires – what the individual looks longingly on. Ecclesiastes Rabbah 1:34 (one of the rabbinic Midrashim) says, “No man dies and has one-half of what he wanted.”} are never satisfied. ^{▼▼ The LXX contains a scribal addition: “He who fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord, and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongues.” This is unlikely to be original.}