Ruth 2:14
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, ‘Come here, and eat some of this bread, and dip your morsel in the sour wine.’ So she sat beside the reapers, and he heaped up for her some parched grain. She ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.
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Psalm 69:21
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
21 They gave me poison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Proverbs 10:26
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
26 Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes,
so are the lazy to their employers.
Proverbs 25:20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
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]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 25:20 Gk: Heb Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, like vinegar on lye
- Proverbs 25:20 Gk Syr Tg: Heb lacks Like a moth . . . human heart
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