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Proverbs 26:21
[As] coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
Proverbs 26:21 · Darby Bible
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Proverbs 26:21 in other translations
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
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In context
18 As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
19 so is a man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am I not in sport?
20 Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.
21 [As] coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
22 The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
23 Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him:
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