8 Avoid strife and your sins will be fewer,for the hot-tempered kindle strife;
9 The sinner disrupts friendshipsand sows discord among those who are at peace.
10 The more the wood, the greater the fire,the more the cruelty, the fiercer the strife;The greater the strength, the sterner the anger,the greater the wealth, the greater the wrath.
11 Pitch and resin make fire flare up,and a hasty quarrel provokes bloodshed.
12 If you blow on a spark, it turns into flame,if you spit on it, it dies out;yet both you do with your mouth!
13 Cursed be gossips and the double-tongued,for they destroy the peace of many.
14 A meddlesome tongue subverts many,and makes them refugees among peoples.It destroys strong cities,and overthrows the houses of the great.