Proverbs 27:7
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7 One who is full loathes (A)honey,
but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
Numbers 11:18-20
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18 And say to the people, (A)‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? (B)For it was better for us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. 19 You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, 20 but a whole month, (C)until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, (D)“Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
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Numbers 21:5
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5 And the people (A)spoke against God and against Moses, (B)“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and (C)we loathe this worthless food.”
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Luke 15:16-17
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16 And he (A)was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
17 “But (B)when he (C)came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
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Numbers 11:4-9
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4 Now the (A)rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also (B)wept again and said, (C)“Oh that we had meat to eat! 5 (D)We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 6 But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
7 Now (E)the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. 8 (F)The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. (G)And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. 9 (H)When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.
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John 6:9
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9 “There is a boy here who has five (A)barley loaves and two fish, but (B)what are they for so many?”
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Job 6:7
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7 My appetite refuses to touch them;
they are as food that is loathsome to me.[a]
Footnotes
- Job 6:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
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