Proverbs 26:21
“As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.”
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Cross-References
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.”
“An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.”
“And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.”
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.”
“And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.”