Bible verse
Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
Proverbs 26:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 26.
16 The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
17 Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
18 Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,
19 so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
20 Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
21 Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
24 A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.
KJV
Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
ASV
For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
ERV
For lack of wood the fire goeth out: and where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
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