Proverbs 25:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, So is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ He who sings songs to a heavy heart is like him who lays off a garment in cold weather and like vinegar upon soda. [Dan. 6:18; Rom. 12:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Singing a song to a troubled heart is like taking off a garment on a cold day or putting vinegar on a wound.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ and like one who loosens his garment in cold weather. Whoever sings verses to a wicked heart is like vinegar on baking soda. Just like a moth to a garment, and a worm to wood, so too does the sadness of a man do harm to the heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.

Proverbs 25:20 Cross References

Proverbs 10:26

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.

Proverbs 25:19

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Proverbs 25:21

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

James 5:15

and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.