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Proverbs 26:20

Proverbs 26:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Some proverbs follow concerning the slanderer. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out. Where the wood fails, and that was the only fuel then used, the fire must go out. So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth; comes to silence ().

(For nirgan," whisper," see on .) Septuagint, "With much wood fire groweth, but where there is not one discordant ( δίθυμος), strife is at rest."

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