Proverbs 27:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.

Cross References

Job 6:7

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

Proverbs 24:13

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

Proverbs 27:6

Well meant are the wounds a friend inflicts, but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 27:8

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

Numbers 21:5

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 food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”

John 6:9

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?”