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

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A person who is full tramples on a honeycomb,(A)
but to a hungry person, any bitter thing is sweet.

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19 Just as water reflects the face,
    so one human heart reflects another.

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19 As water reflects the face,
so the heart reflects the person.

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21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
    so a person is tested[a] by being praised.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.21 Heb lacks is tested

21 As a crucible refines silver,
and a smelter refines gold,
so a person should refine his praise.(A)

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