Sprüche 26:21

Schlachter Bibel

Zur Glut braucht es Kohlen und zum Feuer Holz, und um Streit anzufangen, einen zänkischen Mann.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Wie die Kohlen eine Glut und Holz ein Feuer, also facht ein zänkischer Mann Hader an.

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

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.