Proverbs 26:20-22

New International Reader's Version

²⁰ If you don’t have wood, your fire goes out.
    If you don’t talk about others, arguing dies down.

²¹ Coal glows, and wood burns.
    And a person who argues stirs up conflict.

²² The words of anyone who talks about others are like tasty bites of food.
    They go deep down inside you.