Proverbs 26:20 - King James 2000

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

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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 sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a talebearer are tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

James 3:5

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.