Parallel Verses
Amplified
Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
New American Standard Bible
So is a
King James Version
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Holman Bible
so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
International Standard Version
Charcoal is to hot coals as wood is to fire; so also a quarrelsome man fuels strife.
A Conservative Version
[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
American Standard Version
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.
Bible in Basic English
Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
Darby Translation
As coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
Julia Smith Translation
As charcoal to burning coals and woods to fire, and a man of strifes to kindle strife.
King James 2000
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[As] charcoal [is] to hot embers and wood [is] to fire, so a man of quarrels [is] to kindling strife.
Modern King James verseion
As coals to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man to kindle fighting.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Coals kindle heat, and wood the fire; even so doth a brawling fellow stir up variance.
NET Bible
Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife.
New Heart English Bible
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
The Emphasized Bible
Black coal to burning blocks, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man, for kindling strife.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.
Themes
Contention » Contentious people
Contentiousness » The contentious spirit
Dissention » The contentious spirit
Fire » Things connected with » Burning coals
Speech/communication » Talebearers
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
20
For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer [who gossips], contention quiets down.
Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
The words of a whisperer (gossip) are like dainty morsels [to be greedily eaten];
They go down into the innermost chambers of the body [to be remembered and mused upon].
Cross References
Proverbs 15:18
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife,
But he who is slow to anger and patient calms disputes.
Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife,
And a hot-tempered and undisciplined man commits many transgressions.
2 Samuel 20:1
There happened to be there
And no inheritance in the son of Jesse,
Every man to his tents, O Israel!”
1 Kings 12:2-3
Now when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard about it, he was living in Egypt (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon).
1 Kings 12:20
It came about when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent word and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. None followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah [including Benjamin].
Psalm 120:4
Sharp arrows of the warrior,
With the
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife,
But love covers and overwhelms all transgressions [forgiving and overlooking another’s faults].
Proverbs 30:33
Surely the churning of milk produces butter,
And wringing the nose produces blood;
So the churning of anger produces strife.