Proverbs 26:20 - 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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.

English Standard Version 2016

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

Proverbs 26:20 交叉引用

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man stirs up lawsuits. And one who is verbose divides leaders.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the one who ridicules, and conflict will go out with him, and accusations and insults will cease.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a whisperer seem simple, but they penetrate to the innermost parts of the self.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not be a detractor, nor a whisperer, among the people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

James 3:5

So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest.

James 3:6

And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.