THEOSISProverbs 26:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.
בְּאֶ֣פֶס עֵ֭צִים תִּכְבֶּה־אֵ֑שׁ וּבְאֵ֥ין נִ֝רְגָּ֗ן יִשְׁתֹּ֥ק מָדֽוֹן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 22:10Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.
- Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.
- Prov 16:28A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.
- Prov 26:22The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.