Proverbs 26:20

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

When trees [or woods shall] fail, the fire shall be quenched; and when a privy backbiter is withdrawn, strives rest.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

A wayward man raiseth strives; and a man full of words separateth princes.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast thou out a scorner, and strife shall go out with him; and causes and despisings shall cease.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a privy backbiter be as simple; and those [or they] come till to the innerest things of the heart.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not be a slanderer, that is, a false accuser, neither a privy backbiter in the people; thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the Lord.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is but a little member, and raiseth great things. Lo! how little fire burneth [or kindleth] a full great wood.

James 3:6

And our tongue is fire, the university of wickedness. The tongue is ordained in our members, which defouleth all the body; and it is enflamed, [or set afire], of hell, and enflameth the wheel of our birth.