Cross references
Proverbs 27:7
The soul that is full loathes honey,
but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs 27:7 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 15:16–17 (6 votes) and Numbers 11:18–20 (4 votes). 3 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Numbers 11 to John 6.
Which verses does Proverbs 27:7 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Luke 15:16–176 votes
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing. Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!
- Numbers 11:18–204 votes
And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat. You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days, …
- Numbers 21:54 votes
and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
- Numbers 11:4–92 votes
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat? We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. …
- Job 6:71 vote
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
- John 6:91 vote
“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”
Which verses point to Proverbs 27:7?
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