20. For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease.
21. As charcoal is to hot embers and wood is to fire, so a man of quarrels is to kindling strife.
22. The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body.
23. Like impure silver which overlays an earthen vessel, so are smooth lips and an evil heart.
24. On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but inside he will harbor deceit.
25. When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him, for seven abominations are in his heart.
26. Though hatred is covered with guile, its evil will be exposed in the assembly.
27. He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.