Proverbs 26:20

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

A man of perverseness shall send forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out him mocking, and strife shall go out, and contention shall cease and dishonor.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not go a slanderer among thy people; thou shalt not stand upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Jehovah.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames

James 3:6

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.