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If you have had enough to eat,
    honey doesn't taste good,
but if you are really hungry,
    you will eat anything.

When you are far from home,
you feel like a bird
    without a nest.
The sweet smell of incense
    can make you feel good,
but true friendship
    is better still.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 27.9 still: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 9.

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