New Revised Standard Version
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

Contemporary English Version
Where there is no fuel a fire goes out; where there is no gossip arguments come to an end.

New American Bible
Without wood the fire dies out; without a talebearer strife subsides.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.

When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.

where no wood is or without wood

Proverbs 26:22 The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.

Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.

Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

tale-bearer or whisperer is silent