Verse 20

Without wood the fire is quenched, and without a talebearer strife ceaseth.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:28 : 28 A frowarde person soweth strife: and a tale teller maketh diuision among princes.
  • Prov 22:10 : 10 Cast out the scorner, and strife shal go out: so contention and reproche shall cease.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
  • Prov 26:22 : 22 The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.