Proverbs 26:21 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

As charcoal fuels burning coals and wood fuels fire, so a quarrelsome person fuels a dispute.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

ASV:

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to 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.

DBY:

As coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.

ERV:

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to inflame strife.

JPS:

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

WBS:

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

WEB:

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

YLT:

Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

Proverbs 26:21 Cross References

XREF:

Proverbs 15:18 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, But the slow to anger calms a dispute.

Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, And a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

26:2. He that is cursed without cause, the curse shall do him no more harm than the bird that flies over his head. 3. Every creature must be dealt with according to its nature, but careless and profligate sinners never will be ruled by reason and persuasion. Man indeed is born like the wild ass's colt; but some, by the grace of God, are changed. 4,5. We are to fit our remarks to the man, and address them to his conscience, so as may best end the debate. 6-9. Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honour. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness. 10. This verse may either declare how the Lord, the Creator of all men, will deal with sinners according to their guilt, or, how the powerful among men should disgrace and punish the wicked. 11. The dog is a loathsome emblem of those sinners who return to their vices, 2Pe 2:22. 12. We see many a one who has some little sense, but is proud of it. This describes those who think their spiritual state to be good, when really it is very bad. 13. The slothful man hates every thing that requires care and labour. But it is foolish to frighten ourselves from real duties by fancied difficulties. This may be applied to a man slothful in the duties of religion. 14. Having seen the slothful man in fear of his work, here we find him in love with his ease. Bodily ease is the sad occasion of many spiritual diseases. He does not care to get forward with his business. Slothful professors turn thus. The world and the flesh are hinges on which they are hung; and though they move in a course of outward services, yet they are not the nearer to heaven. 15. The sluggard is now out of his bed, but he might have lain there, for any thing he is likely to bring to pass in his work. It is common for men who will not do their duty, to pretend they cannot. Those that are slothful in religion, will not be at the pains to feed their souls with the bread of life, nor to fetch in promised blessings by prayer. 16. He that takes pains in religion, knows he is working for a good Master, and that his labour shall not be in vain. 17. To make ourselves busy in other men's matters, is to thrust ourselves into temptation. 18,19. He that sins in jest, must repent in earnest, or his sin will be his ruin. 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. 23. A wicked heart disguising itself, is like a potsherd covered with the dross of silver.

CONC:

Argument Breath Burning Charcoal Coal Coals Contentions Contentious Embers Fight Fire Gets Hot Inflame Kindle Kindling Quarrelsome Started Strife Wood

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