Proverbs 27:7
When someone’s stomach is full, he does not want to eat honey; but when someone is very hungry, he thinks that even bitter things taste sweet.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
In Context
8Anyone who wanders far from his home/family is like [SIM] a bird that is far from its nest.
Cross References
Numbers 11:4Then some troublemakers from other people-groups who were traveling with the Israelis began to want better food. And when they started complaining the Israeli people also started to complain.
Numbers 21:5and they began to grumble/complain against God and against Moses/me. They said, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in this desert [RHQ]? There is nothing to eat here, and nothing to drink. And we detest this lousy manna food!”
Luke 15:16Because he was very hungry, he would have been glad to eat the bean pods that the pigs ate. But no one gave him anything to eat.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:6-7
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Note, 1. It is good for us to be reproved, and told of our faults, by our friends. If true love in the heart has but zeal and courage enough to show itself in dealing plainly with our friends, and reproving them for what they say and do amiss, this is really better, not only than secret hatred (as Lev. xix. 17 ), but than secret love, that love to our neighbours which does not show itself in… Read the whole commentary →