Proverbs 26:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

Proverbs 15:18

A wrathful man stirreth up contention: But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Proverbs 30:33

For the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirreth up strifes: But love covereth all transgressions.

Psalm 120:4

Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.

1 Kings 12:20

And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

2 Samuel 20:1

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.