Proverbs 26:21

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

There happened to be a worthless man there whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. He sounded the trumpet and said, “We have no share in David, nor do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel.”

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him before the congregation and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

Psalm 120:4

Sharp arrows of the warrior, with coals of the broom tree!

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 15:18

An angry man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger pacifies a quarrel.

Proverbs 29:22

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

Proverbs 30:33

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