Proverbs 27:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete.

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  • Num 11:4-9 : 4 And a number of people that was among them fell a lustyng, and turned them selues, and wept (euen as dyd also the chyldren of Israel) and sayd: who shall geue vs fleshe to eate? 5 We remember the fishe which we did eate in Egypt for naught, & the cucumbers, & melons, leekes, onions & garleck. 6 But now our soule is dryed away: for we can see nothing els, saue Manna. 7 The Manna was as coriander seede, and to see to lyke Bedellion. 8 And the people went about and gathered it, & grounde it in milles, or beat it in morters, and baked it in pannes, and made cakes of it: And the taste of it, was lyke vnto the taste of freshe oyle. 9 And when the deawe fell downe vpon the hoast in the nyght, the Manna fell vpon it.
  • Num 11:18-20 : 18 And say thou vnto the people, Be halowed agaynst to morowe, and ye shall eate fleshe: for your whyning is in the eares of the Lorde, seyng ye sayd, Who shall geue vs fleshe to eate? we were happy in Egypt: Therefore the Lorde wyll geue you fleshe, and ye shall eate. 19 Ye shall not eate one day nor two, nor fiue dayes, neither ten, nor twentie dayes: 20 But euen a moneth long, vntill it come out at the nostrels of you, and it shalbe lothsome vnto you, because that ye haue cast the Lorde aside whiche is among you, and haue wept before hym, saying: Why came we thus out of Egypt?
  • Num 21:5 : 5 And the people spake agaynst God and agaynst Moyses: wherefore haue ye brought vs out of Egypt, for to dye in the wildernesse? for here is neither bread nor water, and our soule lotheth this lyght bread.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 The thinges that sometime I might not away withel, are nowe my meate for very sorowe.
  • Luke 15:16-17 : 16 And he woulde fayne haue fylled his belly with the coddes that the swyne dyd eate: and no man gaue vnto hym. 17 Then he came to hym selfe, and sayde: Howe many hyred seruauntes at my fathers house haue bread inough, and I perishe with hunger?
  • John 6:9 : 9 There is a litle ladde here, whiche hath fyue barly loaues and two fisshes, but what are they among so many?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 25:16-17
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    78%

    16 If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.

    17 Withdrawe thy foote from thy neighbours house: lest he be werie of thee, and so hate thee.

  • Prov 27:6
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    6 Faythfull are the woundes of a louer: but the kysses of an enemie are cruell.

  • Prov 24:13
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    13 My sonne, eate thou hony because it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth:

  • Job 33:20
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    20 So that his lyfe may away with no bread, and his soule abhorreth to eate any dayntie meate:

  • Job 6:6-7
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    74%

    6 That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the whyte of an egge?

    7 The thinges that sometime I might not away withel, are nowe my meate for very sorowe.

  • Prov 20:17
    74%

    17 A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.

  • Prov 9:17
    74%

    17 Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25 The righteous eateth and is satisfied: but the belly of the vngodly hath neuer enough.

  • Ps 107:9
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    9 For he satisfieth the greedie soule: and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes.

  • Job 21:25
    73%

    25 Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

  • Ps 119:103
    72%

    103 Howe sweete are thy wordes vnto my throte: truely they be sweeter then hony is to my mouth.

  • Prov 16:24
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    24 Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refresshyng of the mynde, and health of the bones.

  • Prov 23:6-8
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    72%

    6 Eate thou not the bread of hym that hath an euyll eye: neither desire thou his daintie meate.

    7 For as though he thought it in his heart, he saith, eate and drinke: where as his heart is not with thee.

    8 The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7 All the labour that a man taketh, is for him selfe, and yet his desire is neuer fylled after his mynde.

  • Ps 19:10
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    10 They are more to be desired then golde, yea then much fine golde: they are also sweeter then hony and the hony combe.

  • Ps 107:5
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    5 they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.

  • Prov 25:27
    70%

    27 As it is not good to eate to muche honye, so curiously to searche the glory of heauenly thinges, is not commendable.

  • Ps 107:18
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    18 Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate: and they be euen harde at deathes doore.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30 Men do not vtterly despise a thiefe that stealeth to satisfie his soule, when he is hungrie:

  • Prov 13:19
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    19 When a desire is brought to passe, it deliteth the soule: but fooles count it abhomination to depart from euyll.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 Of the fruite of a wise mans mouth shall eche man eate good thynges: but the wicked shall eate of the fruite of the transgressours.

  • Prov 27:8-9
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    8 He that oft times flitteth, is like a byrd that forsaketh her nest.

    9 Baulme and sweete incense make the heart merie: so sweete is that frende that geueth counsell from the heart.

  • Jer 31:25
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    25 For I shall feede the hungry soule, and refreshe all faynt heartes.

  • Rev 10:9-10
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    9 And I went vnto the Angel, & sayde vnto hym, geue me the litle booke. And he sayde vnto me, take it and eate it vp, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shalbe in thy mouth as sweete as hony.

    10 And I toke the litle booke out of the Angels hande, and ate it vp, and it was in my mouth as sweete as hony: and assoone as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

  • Job 20:12
    70%

    12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue.

  • Lam 3:15
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    15 He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.

  • 1 Sam 14:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25 And al they of the land came to a wood, where honie lay vpon the grounde.

    26 And the people came into the wood: And behold, the honie dropped, and no man moued his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oth.

  • 1 Sam 14:29
    69%

    29 The sayd Ionathan, My father hath troubled the lande: See howe myne eyes hath receaued sight, because I tasted a litle of this honie:

  • Job 20:14
    69%

    14 The bread that he did eate, is turned to the poyson of serpentes within his bodye.

  • Prov 23:3
    69%

    3 Be not desirous of his daintie meates, for meate begyleth and deceaueth.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5 They that were full, haue hyred out them selues for bread, and they that were hungry, ceasse, tyll the barren hath borne seuen, and she that had many children, is waxed feeble.

  • Prov 27:20
    69%

    20 Hell and destruction are neuer full: euen so the eyes of men can neuer be satisfied.

  • Prov 18:20
    69%

    20 A mans belly shalbe satisfied with the fruite of his owne mouth, and with the encrease of his lippes shall he be filled.

  • Prov 15:17
    68%

    17 Better is a dynner of hearbes with loue, then a fat oxe with euyll wyll.

  • Isa 7:15
    68%

    15 Butter and honye shall he eate, vntill he knowe to refuse the euyll and choose the good.

  • Job 34:3
    68%

    3 For the eare discerneth wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
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    29 Hony, butter, sheepe, & cheese of kyne, for Dauid and for the people that were with him, to eate: For they sayde, The people is hungry, weery, and thirstie, in the wildernesse.

  • Rom 3:14
    68%

    14 Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.

  • Isa 7:22
    68%

    22 Then because of the aboundaunce of mylke that they geue he shall eate butter: so that euery one which remayneth in the lande shall eate butter and hony.

  • Num 11:6
    67%

    6 But now our soule is dryed away: for we can see nothing els, saue Manna.

  • Prov 5:4
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    4 But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde.

  • Job 12:11
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    11 Haue not the eares pleasure in hearing? and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?

  • Job 20:17
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    17 So that he shall no more see the ryuers and brookes of hony and butter.