World English Bible
Proverbs 26:20
“For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.”
Verse in context — Proverbs 26
18
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
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is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?
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For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
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As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
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The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.