Proverbs 25:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Like vinegar on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. Like a moth in clothing or a worm in wood, sorrow gnaws at the human heart.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:26

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.

Proverbs 25:19

Like a bad tooth or a lame foot is trust in a faithless person in time of trouble.

Proverbs 25:21

If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat, and if they are thirsty, give them 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 share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no entertainment was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

James 5:15

The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up, and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.