20Where there is no wood, the fire goeth out: so where there is no whisperer, strife is silenced.
21As charcoals are added to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man fitted to enkindle a dispute.
22The words of a whisperer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost chambers of the body.
23Like silver dross laid over an earthen vessel, so are burning lips with a bad heart.
24With his lips dissembleth he that hateth, and within himself layeth he up deceit:
Proverbs 26
Proverbs 26:20-24