Pr 27:7One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.Pr 5:4but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Job 21:25Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.Ec 9:7Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.La 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.Re 10:10And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.Ps 119:103How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!Ec 10:19Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.La 3:5he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;Pr 27:9Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.Job 7:1“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?Pr 14:13Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.Ec 8:15And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.Re 10:9So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”La 3:19Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!Pr 20:17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.Isa 5:20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!Ps 104:15and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart.Pr 13:19A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.Ec 2:17So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.So 7:9and your mouth like the best wine. She: It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.Ec 2:3I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.Pr 25:25Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.So 5:1He: I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Others: Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!Isa 38:16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live!Job 33:20so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.Pr 24:13My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.1Co 15:19If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.Pr 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.Ec 6:7All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.Isa 24:9No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.Ec 5:18Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.Php 4:12I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.Lu 14:34“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?Job 10:1“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Pr 16:24Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.Joh 12:25Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.2Co 6:10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.Php 1:18What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,Ec 3:8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.Ro 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.Pr 15:4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.Php 1:21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.Ec 2:24There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,Pr 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”Job 7:7“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.Job 3:24For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.Pr 31:6Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;So 5:16His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.So 2:5Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.Ec 11:7Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.Ps 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.Ec 1:13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.Ps 102:9For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,Job 7:16I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.2Co 1:5For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.Ec 3:12I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;Ec 3:4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;Mt 10:39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.Mt 16:25For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.Pr 17:1Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.Ec 8:6For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him.Pr 17:22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,Ec 7:8Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.Lu 12:23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.Joh 15:11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.1Jo 1:4And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.Job 3:20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,Mr 8:35For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.Joh 16:33I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”Pr 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.Pr 5:11and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,2Ti 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.Ps 63:5My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,Ex 15:22Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.Ps 42:2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?2Co 11:27in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.Joh 17:13But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.Ps 73:21When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,Ec 7:26And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.Ec 3:6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;Ec 9:9Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.Jon 4:3Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”Job 16:20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,1Pe 2:3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.Ge 26:35and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.2Ti 4:6For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.So 4:11Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.Ec 12:13The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.Isa 12:3With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.2Co 12:10For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.Pr 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.Pr 1:6to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.Php 4:11Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.Ps 119:50This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.So 7:6How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!Joh 16:20Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.Ps 16:11You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.Pr 21:21Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.