Proverbs 26:20

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

The fire goes out where there is no wood, so the strife becomes quiet. where there is no slanderer.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

A man of perversity sends out strife, and a talebearer separates from a friend.

Proverbs 22:10

Drive the scorner out and strife shall go out; yea, quarrels and shame shall cease.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a slanderer are gulped down, and they go down into the chambers of the heart.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand up against the blood of your neighbor; I am Jehovah.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how little a fire kindles how large a forest!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. So the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by Hell.