New Revised Standard Version
As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

Contemporary English Version
Troublemakers start trouble, just as sparks and fuel start a fire.

New American Bible
Charcoal for coals, wood for fire— such are the quarrelsome, enkindling strife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife.

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife.

Proverbs 10:12 In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.

Proverbs 15:18 A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.

Proverbs 29:22 A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.

Ezekiel 22:9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.

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