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Proverbs 25:20
Proverbs 25:20 is verse 20 of Proverbs chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Or on soda
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.
World English Bible
As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
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Proverbs 25:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
19 Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
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.
21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
22 For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 24:12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
Deuteronomy 24:13be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 24:14Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
Deuteronomy 24:15You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 24:16Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Job 24:7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
Job 24:8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Job 24:10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
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?
James 2:15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
James 2:16If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?
Proverbs 10:26Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
Psalms 137:3for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
Psalms 137:4How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
Ecclesiastes 3:4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Daniel 6:18Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
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.