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20 Where no wodd is, there the fyre goeth out: and where the bacbyter is taken awaye, there the strife ceaseth. 21 Coles kyndle heate, and wodd ye fyre: euen so doth a braulinge felowe stere vp variaunce. 22 A slaunderers wordes are like flatery, but they pearse ye inwarde partes of ye body. 23 Venymous lippes & a wicked herte, are like a potsherde couered wt syluer drosse. 24 An enemie dyssembleth with his lippes, and in the meane season he ymagineth myschefe: 25 but wha he speaketh fayre, beleue him not, for there are seuen abhominacios in his herte. 26 Who so kepeth euell will secretly to do hurte, his malyce shalbe shewed before the whole congregacion. 27 Who so dyggeth vp a pytt, shal fal therin: and he yt weltreth a stone, shal stomble vpon it hymselfe. 28 A dyssemblynge tonge hateth one that rebuketh him, and a flaterige mouth worketh myschefe. Proverbs 26:20-28, Coverdale Bible of 1535. Public domain.
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