Proverbs 26:20 - Exposition

Some proverbs follow concerning the slanderer. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out. Where the wood fails, and that was the only fuel then used, the fire must go out. So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth; comes to silence ( Proverbs 22:10 ). (For nirgan ," whisper," see on Proverbs 16:28 .) Septuagint, "With much wood fire groweth, but where there is not one discordant ( δίθυμος ), strife is at rest."