Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Proverbs 26:21 in other translations
| BSB | Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. |
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| WEB | As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. |
| ASV | As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife. |
| YLT | Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife. |
| DARBY | As coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife. |
| BBE | Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started. |
| Webster | As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. |
What does Proverbs 26:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 26:20-21
20-21. The talebearers foster (Pr 16:28), and the contentious excite, strife.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 26:20-22
Contention heats the spirit, and puts families and societies into a flame. And that fire is commonly kindled and kept burning by whisperers and backbiters.
Proverbs 26:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 26:21
- Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
- Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth 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.
- Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
- Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
- 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 was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
- 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.
- Proverbs 30:33
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
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Context
- Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
- Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
- Proverbs 26:22
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs 26:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El carbón para brasas, y la leña para el fuego: y el hombre rencilloso para encender contienda. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Du charbon sur le brasier et du bois sur le feu, ainsi est l’homme querelleur pour échauffer les disputes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Kohle zur Glut und Holz zum Feuer, und ein zänkischer Mann zum Schüren des Streites. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sicut carbones ad prunas, et ligna ad ignem, sic homo iracundus suscitat rixas. |