Proverbs 27:7 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:7

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:7: Solomon here, as often in this book, shows that the poor have in some respects the advantage of the rich; for, 1. They have a better relish of their enjoyments than the rich have. Hunger is the best sauce. Coarse fare, with a good appetite to it has a sensible pleasantness in it, which those are strangers to whose hearts are overcharged with surfeiting.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:7: As a bird that wandereth from her nest,.... To seek for food for herself and her young; or that leaves it without returning to it, and so her eggs or her young are exposed, and she herself liable to fall into the hands of birds of prey, or of the fowler, when she would be safe in her nest; as there was a law in...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:7: The luxury of wealth confers less happiness than the healthy appetite of labor.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:7: Pro 27:7 In Pro 27:7-10 there is also visible a weaving of the external with the internal. First, there are two proverbs, in each of which there is repeated a word terminating with נ. 7 A satisfied soul treadeth honeycomb under foot; And a hungry soul - everything bitter is (to it) sweet.