20 Without wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, contention ceases.
Proverbs 26:20 Cross References - NHEB
Proverbs 16:28
28 A perverse man stirs up strife, and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs 22:10
10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
Proverbs 26:22
22 The words of a gossip are as tasty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
James 3:6
6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell.