Proverbs 26:17-22 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

¹⁷Like one who grabs a dog by the ears

is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

¹⁸Like a madman shooting firebrands

and deadly arrows,

¹⁹so is the man who deceives his neighbor

and says, “I was only joking!”

²⁰Without wood, a fire goes out;

without gossip, a conflict ceases.

²¹Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire,

so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

²²The words of a gossip are like choice morsels

that go down into the inmost being.

— Proverbs 26:17-22

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