Proverbs 26:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Without wood a fire goes out; without gossips, conflict calms down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ When the wood fails, the fire will be extinguished. And when the gossiper is taken away, conflicts will be quelled.

Proverbs 26:20 Referencias Cruzadas

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out; quarreling and abuse will cease.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.