Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Coals kindle heat, and wood the fire; even so doth a brawling fellow stir up variance.
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.
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.
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 goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth. 21 Coals kindle heat, and wood the fire; even so doth a brawling fellow stir up variance. 22 A slanderer's words are like flattery, but they pierce the inward parts of the body.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:18
An angry man stirreth up strife; but he that is patient stilleth discord.
Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirreth up strife; and he that beareth evil will in his mind, doth much evil.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be an unthrifty fellow named Sheba, the son of Bichri a man of Benjamin which blew a trumpet and said, "We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse, O Israel.
1 Kings 12:2-3
And when Rehoboam the son of Nebat heard of it, being yet in Egypt - for he fled to Egypt for fear of Solomon - he came again out of Egypt.
1 Kings 12:20
And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, they sent and called him unto the congregation and made him king over Israel: and no man followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
Psalm 120:4
Even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.
Proverbs 10:12
Evil will stirreth up strife; but love covereth the multitude of sins.
Proverbs 30:33
Who so churneth milk, maketh butter; he that rubbeth his nose, maketh it bleed; and he that causeth wrath, bringeth forth strife.