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20 Like vinegar on a wound[a]
    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.[b]
21 If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat;
    and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink;
22 for you will heap coals of fire on their heads,
    and the Lord will reward you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:20 Gk: Heb Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, like vinegar on lye
  2. Proverbs 25:20 Gk Syr Tg: Heb lacks Like a moth . . . human heart

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