Proverbs 26:21

WEB

²¹As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

KJV

²¹As coals^[+] are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

BSB

²¹Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

FBV

²¹An argumentative person fires up quarrels like putting charcoal on hot embers or wood on a fire.

Extra References

Proverbs 15:18

¹⁸A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Proverbs 29:22

²²An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

¹There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

1 Kings 12:20

²⁰When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

Psalms 120:4

⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Proverbs 10:12

¹²Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

1 Kings 12:2-3

²When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt; ³and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

Proverbs 30:33

³³For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood, so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”