Proverbs 26:21 - Revised Standard Version CI

²¹ As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife.

Proverbs 26:21 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”

1 Kings 12:20

And 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 none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

Psalm 120:4

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

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 15:18

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Proverbs 29:22

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 30:33

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