Proverbs 25:20
Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on soda is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
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that taketh

Deuteronomy 24:12-17
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession; . . .

Job 24:7-10
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. . . .

Isaiah 58:7
Is it not 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?

James 2:15, 16
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. . . .

vinegar

Proverbs 10:26
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

so

Psalm 137:3, 4
for there our captors requested a song, and our tormentors demanded songs of joy: "Sing us a song of Zion." . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

Daniel 6:18
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.

Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

James 5:15
And 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.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar on soda, Is he who sings songs to a troubled heart.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Singing songs to a troubled heart is like taking off clothing on a cold day or like pouring vinegar on soda.

International Standard Version
Taking your coat off when it's cold or pouring vinegar on soda— that's what singing songs does to a heavy heart.

NET Bible
Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He that takes the cloak from his neighbor in the day of cold as like he that casts dirt upon wealth, and to chastise a grieved heart is like a moth to a garment and like a boring worm to a tree; so grief wounds the heart of a man.
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