20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-22)Contention is as a fire; it heats the spirit, burns up all that is good, and puts families and societies into a flame. Now here we are told how that fire is commonly kindled and kept burning, that we may avoid the occasions of strife and so prevent the mischievous consequences of it. If then we would keep the peace, 1. We must not give ear to talebearers , for they feed the fire of contention with…
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