'Contentions' in the Bible
“You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people;You have kept me as head of the nations;A people whom I have not known serve me.
“Please hear my argumentAnd listen to the contentions of my lips.
You have delivered me from the contentions of the people;You have placed me as head of the nations;A people whom I have not known serve me.
Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.
The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.
Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.
A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,