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Proverbs 27:7

WEB

7A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

KJV

7The full[+] soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

BSB

7The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.

FBV

7If you're full up, you can't face honey; but if you're starving, even bitter food tastes sweet.


Extra References

Luke 15:16-17

16He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. 17But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!


Numbers 11:18-20

18“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat. 19You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, 20but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”


Numbers 21:5

5The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”


Numbers 11:4-9

4The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat? 5We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; 6but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.” 7The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.8[+] The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. 9When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.


John 6:9

9There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”


Job 6:7

7My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.