Proverbs 27:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

The full soul loathes honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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  • Num 11:4-9 : 4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic: 6 But now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was like coriander seed, and its color was like the color of bdellium. 8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
  • Num 11:18-20 : 18 And say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us meat to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt; therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. 19 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 But even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?
  • Num 21:5 : 5 And the 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, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
  • Luke 15:16-17 : 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger!
  • John 6:9 : 9 There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish: but what are they among so many?

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    16Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.

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  • Prov 27:6
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  • Prov 24:13
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    13My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

  • Job 33:20
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    20So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

  • Job 6:6-7
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    74%

    6Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

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  • Prov 20:17
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    17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Prov 9:17
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    17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall lack.

  • Ps 107:9
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    9For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

  • Job 21:25
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    25Another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

  • Ps 119:103
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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 like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.

  • Prov 23:6-8
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    6Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his delicacies:

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    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

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    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

  • Ps 19:10
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    10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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    27It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glory to search out one's own glory.

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    18Their soul abhors all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death.

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    30Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

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    19The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

  • Prov 13:2
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  • Prov 27:8-9
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    8As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

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  • Jer 31:25
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    25For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

  • Rev 10:9-10
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  • Job 20:12
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    25All the people of the land came to a forest, and there was honey on the ground.

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    14Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the venom of asps within him.

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    3Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

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  • Prov 27:20
    69%

    20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

  • Prov 18:20
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    20A man's stomach will be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; he will be filled with the produce of his lips.

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    15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.

  • Job 34:3
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    3For the ear tries words as the mouth tastes food.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
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  • Rom 3:14
    68%

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

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    22And it shall come to pass, because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat who is left in the land.

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    67%

    6But now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes.

  • Prov 5:4
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    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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    11Does not the ear test words? and the mouth taste its food?

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    17He shall not see the rivers, the streams, the brooks of honey and butter.