Parallel Verses
World English Bible
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling 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.
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.
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.
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 a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. 21 As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. 22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
2 Samuel 20:1
There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!"
1 Kings 12:2-3
It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
1 Kings 12:20
It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who 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 wrongs.
Proverbs 30:33
For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."