OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 26:20

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For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

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Verse 20. Faileth. Hebrew Sym. Calmet. “aboundeth, the fire is bright, or flourisheth.” Septuagint Bible.

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