²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.

²⁸ A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

¹⁰ Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

²² The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.