Proverbs 27:7
Good News Translation
When you are full, you will refuse honey, but when you are hungry, even bitter food tastes sweet.

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

Contemporary English Version
If you have had enough to eat, honey doesn't taste good, but if you are really hungry, you will eat anything.

New American Bible
One who is full spurns honey; but to the hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

full

Numbers 11:4-9,18-20 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . .

Numbers 21:5 And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

loatheth or treadeth under foot

Job 6:7 The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.

Luke 15:16,17 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. . . .

John 6:9 There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many?

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
6Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy. 7A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.…
Cross References
Numbers 21:5
And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

Proverbs 24:13
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.

Proverbs 27:6
Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

Proverbs 27:6
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