Sin, and Stuff Do Not Satisfy

Leviticus 26:26b You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

Isaiah 9:20 On the right they will devour, but still be hungry; on the left they will eat, but not be satisfied.

Micah 6:14 You will eat, and not be satisfied…

Hosea 4:10 They will eat but not have enough…

Ecclesiastes 5:10 Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.

Ezekiel 7:19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the LORD's wrath. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has made them stumble into sin.

Proverbs 30:15b-16 There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, 'Enough!': the grave, the barren womb, land, which is never satisfied with water, and fire, which never says, 'Enough!'

Proverbs 27:20 (ESV) Sheol (Death) and Abaddon (Destruction) are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

Matthew Henry

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. Hell still has room for the damned spirits that are committed to that prison. Tophet is deep and large, (Isaiah 30:33).

2. Sin is insatiable: The eyes of man are never satisfied, nor the appetites of the carnal mind towards profit or pleasure. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor is he that loves silver satisfied with silver. Men labour for that which surfeits, but satisfies not; nay, it is dissatisfying; such a perpetual uneasiness have men justly been doomed to ever since our first parents were not satisfied with all the trees of Eden, but they must meddle with the forbidden tree. Those whose eyes are ever toward the Lord in him are satisfied, and shall forever be so.

John Gill

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 bodies are cast into it and devoured by it, it is ready for more; it is one of the four things which never have enough. Or hell, the place of everlasting damnation and destruction, which has received multitudes of souls already, and where there is room for more, nor will it be full until the last day;

so the eyes of man are never satisfied;

as not the eyes of his body with seeing corporeal objects, but still are desirous of seeing more, and indeed everything that is to be seen, and are never glutted, (Ecclesiastes 1:8b – “The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.”); so neither the eyes of the carnal mind, or the lusts of it, which are insatiable things, let the objects of them be what they will; as in an ambitious man, a covetous person, or an unclean one.

Make the Lord your everlasting portion; you can always be content and filled with joy.

Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? Earth has nothing I desire besides you.

Richard Baxter A Christian Directory

Money cannot enlighten a blinded mind, soften a hardened heart, humble a proud heart, or justify a guilty soul. Money will not help you in the day of judgment.

Cal Thomas

If things satisfied, wouldn’t Americans be the most satisfied people on Earth?