Proverbs 26:21-23

International Standard Version

²¹ Charcoal is to hot coals
    as wood is to fire;
        so also a quarrelsome man fuels strife.
²² The words of a gossip are like delicate morsels;
    they sink down deep within.
²³ A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver—
    that’s what smooth^[a] lips with a wicked heart are.