Proverbs 26:21
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
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Cross references
- Proverbs 15:18 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
- Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.
- 2 Samuel 20:1 Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”