Proverbs 26:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ For lack of wood, the fire goes out. And without a slanderer, strife 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.

Proverbs 26:20 Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man sends forth strife, And a whisperer separates intimate friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the scoffer and strife goes out, And contention and shame cease.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a slanderer are as dainty morsels, Which go down into the inner parts of the heart.

Leviticus 19:16

‘Do not go slandering among your people. Do not stand against the blood of your neighbour. I am יהוה.

James 3:5

So too the tongue is a little member, yet boasts greatly. See how a little fire kindles a great forest!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by GĕHinnom.