Proverbs Chapter 26 verse 21 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 26:21

`As' coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.
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BBE Proverbs 26:21

Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
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DARBY Proverbs 26:21

[As] coals for hot coals, and wood for fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
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KJV Proverbs 26:21

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
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WBT Proverbs 26:21


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WEB Proverbs 26:21

As coals are to hot embers, And wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindling strife.
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YLT Proverbs 26:21

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - As coals are to burning coals. As black, cold charcoal feeds glowing charcoal, as wood feeds a lighted fire, so a quarrelsome man (Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 27:15) supports and nourishes strife. The verse is the counterpart of the preceding. Septuagint, "A hearth for coal and logs for fire, and a reviling man for tumult of strife."

Ellicott's Commentary