Proverbs 27:7 - English Standard Version 2016

⁷ One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He who is satiated [with sensual pleasures] loathes and treads underfoot a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Common English Bible

⁷ Someone who is full refuses honey, but anything bitter tastes sweet to a hungry person.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ A sated soul will trample the honeycomb. And a hungry soul will accept even bitter in place of sweet.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.

Proverbs 27:7 Cross References

Job 6:7

My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.

Proverbs 24:13

My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

Proverbs 27:6

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

Numbers 21:5

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 food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”

John 6:9

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”