Proverbs 27:7

Modern

The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.

Traditional

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

Literal

A soul satiated would trample a honeycomb, and to a hungry soul, everything bitter is sweet.

Latin

Anima saturata calcabit favum, et anima esuriens etiam amarum pro dulci sumet.

Hebrew

English

The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.

Even the best teaching (honey) will be ignored if given at the wrong time. The key to real learning is the student's willingness to learn.

Luke 15:16–17
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
Numbers 11:18–20
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.
Numbers 21:5
…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 11:4–9
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
John 6:9
“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”