Proverbs 26:21

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Proverbs 29:22

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

Proverbs 15:18

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

Proverbs 30:33

For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and 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

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.

2 Samuel 20:1

Now there happened to be there a worthless man, 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!”