Proverbs 25:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
  • Dan 6:18 : 18 Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.
  • Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food, 16 And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
  • Jas 5:15 : 15 And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.
  • Deut 24:12-17 : 12 If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night; 13 But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God. 14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land. 15 Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you. 16 Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done. 17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
  • Job 24:7-9 : 7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold. 8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover. 9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt. 10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
  • Ps 137:3-4 : 3 For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
  • Prov 10:26 : 26 Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 15:13
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    13A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  • Prov 17:22
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    22A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

  • Prov 12:25
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    25Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

  • Eccl 7:2-6
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    2It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

    3Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

    4The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

    5It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

    6Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

  • Prov 31:6-7
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    6Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

    7Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

  • Isa 24:7
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    7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Prov 25:19
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    19Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

  • Prov 25:21
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    21If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

  • Prov 25:25
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    25As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.

  • Isa 24:9
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    9There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Prov 15:15
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    15All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

  • Jas 4:9
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    9Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

  • Prov 25:23
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    23As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

  • Prov 23:7
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    7For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

  • Prov 25:13-14
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    13As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.

    14As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.

  • Job 30:31
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    31And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

  • Lam 5:15
    67%

    15The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

  • Job 21:25
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    25And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

  • Prov 14:10
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    10No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

  • Ps 69:20
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    20My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • Job 14:22
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    22Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

  • Prov 27:9
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    9Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

  • Prov 14:30
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    30A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

  • Prov 10:26
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    26Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

  • Prov 27:15
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    15Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

  • Ps 109:18
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    18He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

  • Job 12:5
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    5In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

  • Ps 30:11
    66%

    11By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

  • Lam 3:15
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    15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

  • Eccl 2:23
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    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • Prov 26:18-19
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    66%

    18As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

    19So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

  • Isa 65:14
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    14My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.

  • Luke 5:36
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    36And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

  • Ps 73:21
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    21My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Ps 80:5
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    5You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

  • Prov 27:19
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    19Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

  • Mark 2:21
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    21No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.