⁸And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

²⁴So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

¹²How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

²⁰Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

²⁰By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

¹²A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

¹³He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

¹⁶These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

¹⁷A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

¹²Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

¹⁰Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

¹⁸A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

²⁸A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

¹Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

¹⁴The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

¹⁹He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

⁶A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

¹⁹A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

¹³A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

³It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

¹⁹It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

¹⁰Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

²⁹Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

³⁰They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

⁸Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

²⁴It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

¹⁷He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

²⁰Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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

¹⁵A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.