Parallel Verses
King James 2000
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
Amplified
Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to kindle 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.
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 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases. 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22 The words of a talebearer are tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger quiets strife.
Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
1 Kings 12:2-3
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
1 Kings 12:20
And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
Psalm 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.
Proverbs 30:33
Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood: so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.