Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 26 connects to 4 cross-references. Proverbs on fools, sluggards, and quarrelsome people: as snow in summer and rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly. Like a …
其他译本
For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,
Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
交叉参考
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth …