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20 Fire goes out without wood,
    and quarrels disappear when gossip stops.

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20 Without wood a fire goes out;
    without a gossip a quarrel dies down.(A)

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28 A troublemaker plants seeds of strife;
    gossip separates the best of friends.

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28 A perverse person stirs up conflict,(A)
    and a gossip separates close friends.(B)

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And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:6 Or for it will burn in hell (Greek Gehenna).

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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10 Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too.
    Quarrels and insults will disappear.

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10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
    quarrels and insults are ended.(A)

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22 Rumors are dainty morsels
    that sink deep into one’s heart.

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22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
    they go down to the inmost parts.(A)

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