Proverbs 26:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases. American Standard Version (1901) For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth. Common English Bible Without wood a fire goes out; without gossips, conflict calms down. Catholic Public Domain Version When the wood fails, the fire will be extinguished. And when the gossiper is taken away, conflicts will be quelled. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease. |
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
*'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehinnom.