Proverbs 26:20-22

21st Century King James Version

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

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

²² The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.