Confidence in an unfaithful man— Houbigant renders this verse, As a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint, is the protection of a wicked man in calamity; he will even take away the garment in cold weather; Proverbs 25:20. As he who sprinkleth nitre with vinegar, is the man who shall sing songs to a person in grief. Vinegar remarkably irritates nitre. See Sir 22:6. The LXX, Syr. Chald. Vulg. and Arab. render the 20th verse, As a moth in a garment, or a worm in wood; so is heaviness in the heart of man.
Related Commentaries of Proverbs 25:19
Proverbs 25:19-20
19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.