A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Proverbs 26:20 - New Revised Standard Version For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. 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. |
A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out; quarreling and abuse will cease.
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not profit by the blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.