Proverbs 27:7

Coverdale Bible (1535)

He that is full, abhorreth an hony combe: but vnto him that is hogrie, euery sower thinge is swete.

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  • Num 11:4-9 : 4 Then the comon sorte of people yt was amoge them, fell a lustinge, and sat & wepte wt the children of Israel, and sayde: Who wyll geue vs flesh to eate? 5 We remembre the fish, the we ate in Egipte for naught, & Cucumbers, Melouns, lekes, onyons, & garleke: 6 But now is oure soule dryed awaye, oure eyes se nothinge then the Manna. 7 The Manna was like Coriader sede, and to loke vpon, like Bedellion. 8 And the people ranne here and there, & gathered it, & grounde it in Milles, and beate it in morters, and baked it in panes, and made cakes of it, and it had a taist like an oyle cake. 9 And whan ye dew fell vpon the tetes in the night, ye Manna fell therwith.
  • Num 11:18-20 : 18 And vnto ye people thou shalt saye: Sactifye yor selues agaynst tomorow, yt ye maye eate flesh: for youre wepynge is come into the eares of the LORDE, ye that saye: Who shal geue vs flesh to eate? for we were well at ease in Egipte. Therfore shal the LORDE geue you flesh to eate, 19 not one daye, not two, not fyue, not ten, not twentye dayes longe, 20 but a moneth longe, tyll it go out at youre noses, and tyll ye lothe it: euen because ye haue refused the LORDE, which is amonge you, and haue wepte before him, & sayde: Wherfore wente we out of Egipte?
  • Num 21:5 : 5 and they spake agaynst God and agaynst Moses: Wherfore hast thou brought vs out of the lande of Egipte, to slaye vs in the wildernesse? For here is nether bred ner water, and oure soule lotheth this lighte meate.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 The thinges that sometyme I might not awaye withall, are now my meate for very sorow.
  • Luke 15:16-17 : 16 And he wolde fayne haue fylled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate. And no man gaue him them. 17 Then came he to him self, and sayde: How many hyred seruauntes hath my father, which haue bred ynough, and I perish of honger?
  • John 6:9 : 9 There is a lad here, yt hath fyue barlye loaues, and two fishes, but what is that amoge so many?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 78%

    16 Yf thou findest hony, eate so moch as is sufficiet for ye: lest thou be ouer full, & perbreake it out againe.

    17 Withdrawe yi foote fro thy neghbours house, lest he be weery of the, and so abhorre the.

  • 6 Faithfull are the woundes of a louer, but ye kysses of an enemie are disceatfull.

  • 13 My sonne, thou eatest hony & ye swete hony cobe, because it is good & swete in thy mouth.

  • 20 so that his life maye awaye wt no bred, & his soule abhorreth to eate eny dayntie meate:

  • Job 6:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 Maye a thynge be eaten vnseasoned, or without salt? What taist hath ye whyte within the yoke an egg?

    7 The thinges that sometyme I might not awaye withall, are now my meate for very sorow.

  • 17 Euery ma liketh the bred that is gotten with disceate, but at the last is mouth shalbe fylled with grauell.

  • 17 stollen waters are swete, & the bred that is preuely eaten, hath a good taist.

  • 25 The rightuous eateth, and is satisfied, but ye bely of the vngodly hath neuer ynough.

  • 9 For he satisfied the emptie soule, & fylled the hongrie soule wt good.

  • 25 Another dyeth in sorowe and heuynesse, and neuer had good daies.

  • 103 O how swete are thy wordes vnto my throte? Yee more the hony vnto my mouth.

  • 24 Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refreshinge of ye mynde, & health of ye bones.

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6 Eate not thou wt ye envyous, and desyre no his meate,

    7 for he hath a maruelous herte. He sayeth vnto ye: eate and drynke, where as his herte is not wt ye.

    8 Yee ye morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou perbreake, and lese those swete wordes.

  • 7 All the laboure that a man taketh, is for himself, and yet his desyre is neuer fylled after his mynde.

  • 10 More pleasunt are they then golde, yee then moch fyne golde: sweter then hony & the hony combe.

  • 5 Hongrie & thirstie, & their soule faynted in the.

  • 27 Like as it is not good to eate to moch hony, euen so he that wyll search out hye thynges, it shal be to heuy for him.

  • 18 Their soule abhorred all maner of meate, they were eue harde at deathes dore.

  • 30 Men do not vtterly despyse a thefe, that stealeth to satisfie his soule, when he is hongerie:

  • 19 When a desyre is brought to passe, it delyteth the soule: but fooles abhorre him that eschueth euell.

  • 2 A good ma shal enioye the frute of his mouth, but he that hath a frowarde mynde, shalbe spoyled.

  • Prov 27:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 He that oft tymes flytteth, is like a byrde yt forsaketh hir nest.

    9 The herte is glad of a swete oyntment and sauoure, but a stomacke that ca geue good councell, reioyseth a mans neghboure.

  • 25 For I shall fede the hongrie soule, and refresh all faynte hertes.

  • Rev 10:9-10
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    70%

    9 And I went vnto the angel, and sayde vnto him: geue me the lytle boke. And he sayde vnto me: Take it, and eate it vp, and it shal make thy belly bytter, but it shalbe in thy mouth as swete as hony.

    10 And I toke the lytle boke out of his honde, and ate it vp, and it was in my mouth as swete as hony, and as sone as I had eaten it, my belly was bytter.

  • 12 Whe wickednesse is swete in his mouth, he hydeth it vnder his tonge.

  • 15 He hath fylled me with bytternesse, & geuen me wormwod to drynke.

  • 69%

    25 And all the people of the londe came in to the wodd. But there laye hony vpon the felde:

    26 and whan the people came in to the wodd, beholde, the hony flowed, but no man put of it to his mouth with his hade: for the people were afraied because of the ooth.

  • 29 Then sayde Ionathas: My father hath troubled the londe: Se how lighte myne eyes are become, because I haue taisted a litle of this hony.

  • 14 The meate that he eateth, shalbe turned to the poyson of serpetes within his body.

  • 3 and yf thou wilt rule thine owne self, be not ouer gredy of his meate, for meate begyleth and disceaueth.

  • 5 They that were fylled afore, are solde for bred: and they that were hongrie, are satisfied: vntyll the baren bare seuen, and tyll she that had many childre, was become weake.

  • 20 Like as hell & destruccion are neuer full, euen so the eyes of me can neuer be satisfied.

  • 20 A mans bely shalbe satisfied with the frute of his owne mouth, and with the increase of his lippes shal he be fylled.

  • 17 Better is a meace of potage with loue, then a fat oxe wt euell will.

  • 15 Butter and hony shal he eate, yt he maye knowe the euel, and chose ye good.

  • 3 For like as the mouth tasteth the meates, so the eare proueth & discerneth the wordes.

  • 29 hony, butter, shepe and fat oxen vnto Dauid, and to ye people that was with him, for to eate: for they thought, The people shall be hongrie, weerye and thirstye in the wyldernes.

  • 14 Their mouth is full of cursynge and bytternesse.

  • 22 Then because of the aboundaunce of mylck, he shal make butter and eat it. So that euery one which remayneth in the londe, shal eate butter and hony.

  • 6 But now is oure soule dryed awaye, oure eyes se nothinge then the Manna.

  • 4 But at ye last she is as bitter as wormwod, and as sharpe as a two edged swerde.

  • 11 Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge, and the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth?

  • 17 so that he shal nomore se the ryuers and brokes of hony and butter: