Proverbs 27:7

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A satisfied soul tramples on honey, but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

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  • Num 11:4-9 : 4 The rabble among them began to crave other food, and the Israelites also started to weep again, saying, 'Who will give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. 6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to see but this manna! 7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium. 8 The people went around gathering it, ground it in handmills or crushed it in mortars, cooked it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like a cake baked with the richness of oil. 9 When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
  • Num 11:18-20 : 18 Tell the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!’ Now the LORD will give you meat to eat, and you will eat it. 19 You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten, or twenty days, 20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’
  • Num 21:5 : 5 The people spoke against God and Moses: 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we detest this miserable food!'
  • Job 6:7 : 7 My soul refuses to touch them; they are like loathsome food to me.
  • Luke 15:16-17 : 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 But when he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but here I am dying from hunger!
  • John 6:9 : 9 'There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they for so many people?'

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    13Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

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    20Their life begins to loathe food, and their soul rejects even the most desirable meal.

  • Job 6:6-7
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    6Can something tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?

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  • Prov 20:17
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    17Food gained by deceit is sweet to a person, but afterward their mouth is full of gravel.

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    17Stolen water is sweet, and food eaten in secret is delicious.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The righteous eat to their heart's content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.

  • Ps 107:9
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    9For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good things.

  • Job 21:25
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    25While another dies in bitterness of soul, having never tasted prosperity.

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    103How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

  • Prov 16:24
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    24Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

  • Prov 23:6-8
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    2From the fruit of their lips, people enjoy good things, but the appetite of the treacherous desires violence.

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    8Like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who wanders from his place.

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    25For I have satisfied the weary soul and replenished every languishing soul.

  • Rev 10:9-10
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    9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll. He said to me, 'Take it and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth, it will be sweet as honey.'

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  • Job 20:12
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    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

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    6But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to see but this manna!

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