²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

²⁸ A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

²² The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.