Proverbs
Chapters 26:15-21
New International Version Anglicized
15A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
16A sluggard is wiser in his own eyesthan seven people who answer discreetly.
17Like one who grabs a stray dog by the earsis someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own.
18Like a maniac shootingflaming arrows of death
19is one who deceives their neighbourand says, ‘I was only joking!’
20Without wood a fire goes out;without gossip a quarrel dies down.
21As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire,so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.