Proverbs 25:20

Whoever is taking away a garment in a cold day, || [Is as] vinegar on natron, || And a singer of songs on a sad heart.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

In Context

19A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, || [Is] the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.

21If he who is hating you hungers, cause him to eat bread, || And if he thirsts, cause him to drink water.

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Cross References

Job 24:7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.

Proverbs 10:26As vinegar to the teeth, || And as smoke to the eyes, || So [is] the slothful to those sending him.

Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, || And bring home the wandering poor, || That you see the naked and cover him, || And do not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Romans 12:15to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

James 5:15and the prayer of faith will save the distressed one, and the LORD will raise him up, and if he may have committed sins, they will be forgiven to him.

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 →

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