Proverbs 26:20 - Tree of Life Version

²⁰ Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip quarrels cease.

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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 person sows strife, and a gossip separates close friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Throw out a scoffer and strife will go out, quarreling and disgrace will cease.

Proverbs 26:22

A gossip’s words are like tasty morsels— they slide down into the innermost parts of the body.

Leviticus 19:16

“You are not to go up and down as a talebearer among your people. You are not to endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Adonai.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is a small member—yet it boasts of great things. See how so small a fire sets a blaze so great a forest!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is a world of evil placed among our body parts. It pollutes the whole body and sets on fire the course of life—and is set on fire by Gehenna.