Proverbs 25:20
Good News Translation
Singing to a person who is depressed is like taking off a person's clothes on a cold day or like rubbing salt in a wound.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
Singing to someone in deep sorrow is like pouring vinegar in an open cut.

New American Bible
Like the removal of clothes on a cold day, or vinegar on soda, is the one who sings to a troubled heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

that taketh

Deuteronomy 24:12-17 But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night, . . .

Job 24:7-10 They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold: . . .

Isaiah 58:7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

James 2:15,16 And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food: . . .

vinegar

Proverbs 10:26 The fear of the Lord shall prolong days: and the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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Psalm 137:3,4 For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion. . . .

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

Daniel 6:18 And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed 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 the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
19To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot, 20And 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.21If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:…
Cross References
Proverbs 25:19
To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot,

Proverbs 25:21
If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:

Proverbs 25:19
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