²¹ Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.

¹⁸ An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

²² An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

¹ Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

² And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

³ And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

²⁰ Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

⁴ Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.

¹² Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

³³ The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.