Proverbs 26:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁰ For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Without wood a fire goes out; without gossips, conflict calms down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ When the wood fails, the fire will be extinguished. And when the gossiper is taken away, conflicts will be quelled.

Proverbs 26:20 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Leviticus 19:16

*'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.

James 3:5

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James 3:6

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.