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Prov 27:7

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 27:7 · Douay-Rheims
“A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“The soul sated will trample upon the honeycomb, etc. The soul of the rich, who have their consolation and are told by the Lord, Woe to you who are full, for you shall hunger (Luke VI), spurns the sweetness of the heavenly kingdom when preached; but the soul of those who hunger and thirst for justice finds it sweet to endure even the adversities of the world for the Lord, indeed to suffer death itself, knowing that through the cup of bitterness they will come to the joys of eternal salvation.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.