Proverbs 27:20

"Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man."

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that just as a person's reflection in water shows their outward appearance, one's heart and inner thoughts reveal their true nature. It emphasizes the idea that our actions and character are reflections of what is within us.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Hades, the world of the dead, and Destruction (Death, the destroying power, personified) have been at all times and in all countries thought of as all-devouring, insatiable (compare the marginal reference). Yet one thing is equally so, the lust of the eye, the restless craving which grows with what it feeds onEcclesiastes 1:8.

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