Proverbs 25:20 (BSB)

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.

From Proverbs 25. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 25:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 25:20: 1. The absurdity here censured is singing songs to a heavy heart. Those that are in great sorrow are to be comforted by sympathizing with them, condoling with them, and concurring in their lamentation. If we take that method, the moving of our lips may assuage their grief (Job 16:5); but we take a wrong course with them if we think to relieve them by...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 25:20: As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather,.... Either takes it off of himself, or another person, when it would be rather more proper to put another garment on, and so is exposed to the injury of cold weather; and as vinegar upon nitre: nitre was found in Egypt, beyond Memphis, as Strabo says (p); there were two mines of nitre, which produced...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 25:20: Not only is the incongruity of songs (that is, joyful) and sadness meant, but an accession of sadness, by want of sympathy, is implied.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 25:20: [As] he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon soda, so [is] he that singeth songs to an heavy heart. (o) Which melts it, and consumes it.