Quotes about Consumption
So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
- Psalm 78:29
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- Psalm 78:30
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- Psalm 78:46
The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
- Psalm 80:13
Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.
- Proverbs 21:20
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
- Proverbs 25:16
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
- Proverbs 27:20
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
- Proverbs 30:15
When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
- Ecclesiastes 5:11
They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
- Isaiah 9:20
O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
- Isaiah 26:11
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
- Isaiah 44:15