Proverbs 26:20

New King James Version

²⁰Where there is no wood, the fire goes out;
And where there is no ^[a]talebearer, strife ceases.

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Proverbs 26:20 gossip or slanderer, lit. whisperer

Proverbs 26:20 in all English translations

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