PROVERBS 26:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.”
As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person to kindle strife—a reinforcement of 26:20, emphasizing that contentious people perpetuate conflict. The image of adding fuel to fire describes how the quarrelsome person escalates. The theological significance involves the principle that the contentious are destructive to community.
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