Proverbs 27:7

World English Bible (2000)

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

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  • Num 11:4-9 : 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at." 7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium. 8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. 9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
  • Num 11:18-20 : 18 "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat. 19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"
  • Num 21:5 : 5 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, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
  • Job 6:7 : 7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
  • Luke 15:16-17 : 16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. 17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
  • John 6:9 : 9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"

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  • Prov 25:16-17
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    16Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

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  • Prov 27:6
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    6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

  • Prov 24:13
    76%

    13My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are 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
    2 verses
    74%

    6Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

    7My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

  • Prov 9:17
    74%

    17"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

  • Prov 13:25
    73%

    25The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

  • Ps 107:9
    73%

    9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

  • Job 21:25
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    25Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

  • Ps 119:103
    72%

    103How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

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

  • Prov 23:6-8
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    72%

    6Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

    7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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

  • Eccl 6:7
    72%

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

  • Ps 19:10
    71%

    10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

  • Ps 107:5
    71%

    5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • Prov 25:27
    70%

    27It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.

  • Ps 107:18
    70%

    18Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

  • Prov 6:30
    70%

    30Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

  • Prov 13:19
    70%

    19Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

  • Prov 13:2
    70%

    2By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

  • Prov 27:8-9
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    70%

    8As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

    9Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

  • Jer 31:25
    70%

    25For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

  • Rev 10:9-10
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    70%

    9I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."

    10I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

  • Job 20:12
    70%

    12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

  • Lam 3:15
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    15He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

  • 1 Sam 14:25-26
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    69%

    25All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

    26When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

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    29Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

  • Job 20:14
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    14yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

  • Prov 23:3
    69%

    3Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

  • Prov 27:20
    69%

    20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.

  • Prov 18:20
    69%

    20A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

  • Prov 15:17
    68%

    17Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

  • Isa 7:15
    68%

    15He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

  • Job 34:3
    68%

    3For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    68%

    29and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."

  • Rom 3:14
    68%

    14"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

  • Isa 7:22
    68%

    22and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.

  • Num 11:6
    67%

    6but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at."

  • Prov 5:4
    67%

    4But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Job 12:11
    67%

    11Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

  • Job 20:17
    67%

    17He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.