Quarreling

30Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

16There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

10Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

1Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

10Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

8Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

17Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

33For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.