Proverbs 25:20
Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
Cross References
Job 24:7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
Proverbs 10:26Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
Isaiah 58:7Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Romans 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
James 5:15And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:20
19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. 1. The confidence of an unfaithful man (so some read it) will be like a broken tooth; his policy, his power, his interest, all that which he trusted in to support him in his wickedness, will fail him in time of trouble, Ps. lii. 7 . 2. Confidence in an unfaithful man (so we read it), in a man whom we thought trusty and therefore depended on, but who proves otherwise; it proves not only unserviceable, but painful… Read the whole commentary →