And the flipside of that being, sometimes when we're not the one in the muck and if someone is in way too deep, we're wasting our breath at the muck and we don't need to join them.
I've been in the muck and out of the muck, and now, I think when a person is in too deep, sometimes you have to step away and let God handle it.
It is important for us to let God be God and for Him to be the solution to a person's problems, by laying out the issues you perceive that are before that person to God. His solutions are far better than our reasoning.
This proverb a few verses before the one you quoted is well worth considering, for us to remember.
Proverbs 25:17: -
Seldom set foot in your neighbour's house,
Lest he become weary of you and hate you.
Lest he become weary of you and hate you.
where, "house" is a metaphor for your neighbour's business/life.
It is far better to allow your neighbour to read you like God's Bible just for him, and to desire the Joy that you have in the Lord.
A wise friend once told me that: -
It is far better to ask leading questions of another that will lead them to find their own solution,
than to tell the other person what your solution for them is.
than to tell the other person what your solution for them is.
but they will resist the solution(s) that you suggest and will hate you for them.
Shalom