Mishle 26:20-22

Orthodox Jewish Bible

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the eish goeth out; so where there is no nirgan (gossip, slanderer, talebearer), the strife dieth down.

²¹ As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to eish; so is a contentious ish to kindle strife.

²² The devarim of a nirgan (gossip, slanderer, talebearer) are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost chambers of the beten.