Proverbs 26:21
“As coales are to burning coales, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.”
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Proverbs 26:21 Context
19So is the man that deceiueth his neighbour, & sayth, Am not I in sport? 20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth. 21As coales are to burning coales, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22The words of a tale-bearer are as woundes, and they goe downe into the innermost parts of the belly. 23Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.
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[As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife.
- King James Version
{Like} charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
`As' coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
- Basic English Bible
[As] coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
- Darby Bible
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
- Webster's Bible
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
- World English Bible
Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.
- Youngs Literal Bible
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible