20 Without wood a fire goes out;
    without a gossip a quarrel dies down.(A)

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:20 gossip or slanderer, lit. whisperer