Proverbs 27:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.

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  • Num 11:4-9 : 4 And a nomber of people that was amog them, fell a lusting, and turned away, and the children of Israel also wept, and saide, Who shall giue vs flesh to eate? 5 We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt for nought, the cucumbers, & the pepons, and the leekes, and the onions, and the garleke. 6 But now our soule is dryed away, we can see nothing but this Man. 7 (The Man also was as coriander seede, and his colour like the colour of bdelium. 8 The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in milles, or beat it in morters, and baked it in a cauldron, and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was like vnto the taste of fresh oyle. 9 And when the dewe fell downe vpon the hoste in the night, the Man fell with it)
  • Num 11:18-20 : 18 Furthermore thou shalt saye vnto the people, Bee sanctified against to morowe, and yee shall eate flesh: for you haue wept in the eares of the Lord, saying, Who shall giue vs flesh to eate? For we were better in Egypt: therefore the Lorde will giue you flesh, and ye shall eate. 19 Ye shal not eat one day nor two daies, nor fiue daies, neither ten daies, nor twentie dayes, 20 But a whole moneth, vntill it come out at your nostrels, and bee lothesome vnto you, because ye haue contemned the Lorde, which is among you, and haue wept before him, saying, Why came we hither out of Egypt?
  • Num 21:5 : 5 And the people spake against God and against Moses, saying, Wherefore haue ye brought vs out of Egypt, to die in the wildernesse? for here is neither bread nor water, & our soule lotheth this light bread.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.
  • Luke 15:16-17 : 16 And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him. 17 Then he came to him selfe, & said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?
  • John 6:9 : 9 There is a little boy heere, which hath fiue barlie loaues, and two fishes: but what are they among so many?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 25:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

    16 If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, & vomit it.

    17 Withdrawe thy foote from thy neighbours house, least he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

  • Prov 27:6
    77%

    6 The wounds of a louer are faithful, and the kisses of an enemie are pleasant.

  • Prov 24:13
    76%

    13 My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.

  • Job 33:20
    75%

    20 So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.

  • Job 6:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

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

    7 Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.

  • Prov 20:17
    74%

    17 The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.

  • Prov 9:17
    74%

    17 Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

  • Prov 13:25
    73%

    25 The righteous eateth to the contentation of his minde: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

  • Ps 107:9
    73%

    9 For he satisfied the thirstie soule, and filled the hungrie soule with goodnesse.

  • Job 21:25
    73%

    25 And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

  • Ps 119:103
    72%

    103 Howe sweete are thy promises vnto my mouth! yea, more then hony vnto my mouth.

  • Prov 16:24
    72%

    24 Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6 Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.

    7 For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.

    8 Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

  • Eccl 6:7
    72%

    7 All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

  • Ps 19:10
    71%

    10 And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe.

  • Ps 107:5
    71%

    5 Both hungrie and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.

  • Prov 25:27
    70%

    27 It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.

  • Ps 107:18
    70%

    18 Their soule abhorreth al meat, and they are brought to deaths doore.

  • Prov 6:30
    70%

    30 Men do not despise a thiefe, when he stealeth, to satisfie his soule, because he is hungrie.

  • Prov 13:19
    70%

    19 A desire accomplished deliteth ye soule: but it is an abomination to fooles to depart from euil.

  • Prov 13:2
    70%

    2 A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

  • Prov 27:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 As a bird that wandreth from her nest, so is a man that wandreth from his owne place.

    9 As oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart, so doeth the sweetenes of a mans friend by hearty counsell.

  • Jer 31:25
    70%

    25 For I haue saciate the wearie soule, and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule.

  • Rev 10:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 So I went vnto the Angel, and saide to him, Giue me the litle booke; he said vnto me, Take it, and eate it vp, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shalbe in thy mouth as sweete as honie.

    10 Then I tooke the litle booke out of ye Angels hand, and ate it vp, and it was in my mouth as sweete as hony: but whe I had eaten it my belly was bitter.

  • Job 20:12
    70%

    12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

  • Lam 3:15
    70%

    15 He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.

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

    25 And all they of the land came to a wood, where hony lay vpon the ground.

    26 And the people came into the wood, and beholde, the hony dropped, and no man mooued his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the othe.

  • 1 Sam 14:29
    69%

    29 Then said Ionathan, My father hath troubled the land: see nowe howe mine eyes are made cleare, because I haue tasted a litle of this honie:

  • Job 20:14
    69%

    14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

  • Prov 23:3
    69%

    3 Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    69%

    5 They that were full, are hired foorth for bread, and the hungrie are no more hired, so that the barren hath borne seuen: and shee that had many children, is feeble.

  • Prov 27:20
    69%

    20 The graue and destruction can neuer be full, so the eyes of man can neuer be satisfied.

  • Prov 18:20
    69%

    20 With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

  • Prov 15:17
    68%

    17 Better is a dinner of greene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.

  • Isa 7:15
    68%

    15 Butter and hony shal he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and to chuse the good.

  • Job 34:3
    68%

    3 For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    68%

    29 And they brought honie, and butter, and sheepe, and cheese of kine for Dauid and for the people that were with him, to eate: for they said, The people is hungry, and wearie, and thirstie in the wildernesse.

  • Rom 3:14
    68%

    14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

  • Isa 7:22
    68%

    22 And for the abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.

  • Num 11:6
    67%

    6 But now our soule is dryed away, we can see nothing but this Man.

  • Prov 5:4
    67%

    4 But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

  • Job 12:11
    67%

    11 Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?

  • Job 20:17
    67%

    17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.