Proverbs 27:7 The full soul loathes an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.… To appreciate a thing you must first feel its want. This applies to — I. CORPOREAL GOOD. It is appetite that makes bodily food sweet and enjoyable. Delicious was the manna to the Israelites at first. Which of the two is the more blest, the man who has the abundance of the enjoyable without the power of enjoying or he who has the scarcest and humblest fare with the full relish of the hungry soul? II. INTELLECTUAL GOOD. A man may have an immense library, and no appetite for books. To him the priceless library is worse than worthless. I'd rather be the man of one book, nay, of no book at all but the book of my own soul — the book of nature — with an appetite for truth, than the owner of the choicest library of the world with no desire for knowledge. III. SPIRITUAL GOOD. (D. Thomas, D.D.) Parallel Verses KJV: The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.WEB: A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. |
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