Proverbs 26:17-22
17
Like one who seizes a dog by the ears
is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
18
Like a madman shooting
firebrands or deadly arrows
19
is a man who deceives his neighbor
and says, “I was only joking!”
20
Without wood a fire goes out;
without gossip a quarrel dies down.
21
As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire,
so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
22
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they go down to a man’s inmost parts.