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]

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

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

²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
    so are the lazy to their employers.^(A)

³ For there our captors
    asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
    “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”^(A)

⁷ They lie all night naked, without clothing,
    and have no covering in the cold.^(A)
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains
    and cling to the rock for want of shelter.^(B)