Verse 20

¶ Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 16:28 : 28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
• Prov 22:10 : 10 ¶ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
• Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue 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 words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.