Proverbs 26:21
◄  Proverbs 26:21  ►
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.

Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.

Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.

Ezekiel 22:9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the middle of you they commit lewdness.

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Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
As charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Charcoal is to hot coals as wood is to fire; so also a quarrelsome man fuels strife.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

American King James Version
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

American Standard Version
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife.

Darby Bible Translation
As coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.

English Revised Version
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to inflame strife.

Webster's Bible Translation
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

World English Bible
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Young's Literal Translation
Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.


Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

As charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. —HCSB

[Like] charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife. —NASB

[As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife. —KJV


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Argument Breath Burning Charcoal Coal Coals Contentions Contentious Embers Fight Fire Gets Hot Inflame Kindle Kindling Quarrelsome Started Strife Wood

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Proverbs Chapter 26 Verse 21

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