Proverbs 26:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; So is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ As coals are to hot embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man to inflame strife. [Prov. 15:18; 29:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.

Common English Bible

²¹ Like adding charcoal to embers or wood to fire, quarrelsome people kindle strife.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Just as charcoals are to burning coals, and wood is to fire, so also is an angry man who stirs up quarrels.

Proverbs 26:21 Cross References

Proverbs 29:22

One given to anger stirs up strife, and the hothead causes much transgression.

Proverbs 15:18

Those who are hot-tempered stir up strife, but those who are slow to anger calm contention.

Proverbs 30:33

For as pressing milk produces curds and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing anger produces strife.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Psalm 120:4

A warrior’s sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a scoundrel named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and cried out, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Everyone to your tents, O Israel!”