"Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth."
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The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.
For lack of wood a fire goes out; Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,