Proverbs 30:33

A Conservative Version

For the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood, so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.

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An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.

He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in LORD shall be made fat.

The beginning of strife is [like] letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.

And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

The words of king Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him.