箴言 26:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

好爭競的人，煽動爭端，就像餘燼上加炭，火上加柴一樣。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
好 争 竞 的 人 煽 惑 争 端 ， 就 如 馀 火 加 炭 ， 火 上 加 柴 一 样 。

Contextual Overview

²⁰ Without wood, a fire will go out, and without gossip, quarreling will stop. ²¹ Just as charcoal and wood keep a fire going, a quarrelsome person keeps an argument going. ²² The words of a gossip are like tasty bits of food; people like to gobble them up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 10:12, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 29:22, Proverbs 30:33, 2 Samuel 20:1, 1 Kings 12:2, 1 Kings 12:3, 1 Kings 12:20, Psalms 120:4

Reciprocal: Proverbs 17:14 - beginning Proverbs 22:10 - General James 3:6 - the tongue

Cross-References

Ezra 4:6
When Xerxes first became king, those enemies wrote a letter against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire,.... As brands, wood half burnt, or dead coals put to live and burning ones, soon take fire and become like them, and fit and proper fuel for them, and add to their heat:

so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife; or "a man of contentions" k; who is given to it, is full of it; it is agreeable to his natural temper and disposition; he is in his element when at it; such a man is as fuel to the fire, as a dead coal to a living one, which increases the heat of it; so does he, he kindles and spreads the flame of contention and strife.

k איש מדונים "vir contentionum", Montanus, Baynus, Piscator, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Coals - Charcoal.