For lack of wood a fire goes out.
Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Proverbs 26:20 in context
Proverbs 26:17–23
17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
18
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
19
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
20
Selected verse
For lack of wood a fire goes out.
Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
21
As coals are to hot embers,
and wood to fire,
so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,
they go down into the innermost parts.
23
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel
are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
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