Proverbs 25:20

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Like one who removes a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and to bring the homeless poor into your house? When you see the naked, clothe them, and do not hide yourself from your own flesh and blood.
  • Dan 6:18 : 18 A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and the rings of his nobles, so that nothing could be changed in regard to Daniel.
  • Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, keep warm and be well fed,' but does not provide for their physical needs, what good is it?
  • Jas 5:15 : 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise them up; and if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven.
  • Deut 24:12-17 : 12 If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight. 13 Return their pledge by sunset so that they may sleep in their own garment and bless you; this will be considered a righteous act before the LORD your God. 14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. 16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin. 17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.
  • Job 24:7-9 : 7 They spend the night naked without clothing, having no covering in the cold. 8 They are drenched by the mountain rains and embrace the rocks for lack of shelter. 9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge. 10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.
  • Ps 137:3-4 : 3 For there, our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for joy, saying, 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion!' 4 How can we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?
  • Prov 10:26 : 26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to those who send him.

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    2It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting, because death is the destination of everyone, and the living should take it to heart.

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    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

    5It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise person than to listen to the song of fools.

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