²⁰ Whoever ^(A)sings songs to a heavy heart
    is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day,
    and like vinegar on soda.

⁴ a time to ^(A)weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to ^(B)dance;

⁷ Is it not ^(A)to share your bread with the hungry
    and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
    ^(B)and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
    so is the sluggard to those who send him.

³ For there our captors
    required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
    “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

⁷ They ^(A)lie all night naked, without clothing,
    and have no covering in the cold.
⁸ They are wet with the rain of the mountains
    and ^(B)cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
⁹ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
    and they take a pledge against the poor.)
¹⁰ They go about naked, without clothing;
    hungry, they ^(C)carry the sheaves;