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Prov 27:20

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 27:20 · Douay-Rheims
“Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Hell and destruction will not be full, etc. The torments of hell will not be filled, by receiving an end; similarly, the intentions of those who are wise in human matters are insatiable in the desire to sin. And hence they pay the penalties without end because they had the will to sin without end, if they had the nature to live without end.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.