Proverbs 26:20 - 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.

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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.

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 stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

James 3:5

Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.