Proverbs 27:7

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What does Proverbs 27:7 mean?

Proverbs 27:7 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 27:7

• Luke 15:16-17

  And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

• Numbers 21:5

  And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

• Numbers 11:18-20

  And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

• Numbers 11:4-9

  And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. …

• John 6:9

  There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

• Job 6:7

  The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

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Context

• Proverbs 27:6

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

• Proverbs 27:7

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

• Proverbs 27:8

  As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

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