A perverse person ¹  spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends. ² 

It is an honor for a person ¹  to cease ²  from strife, but every fool quarrels. ³ 

Better is a dry crust of bread ¹  where there is quietness ²  than a house full of feasting with strife. ³ 

Confuse them, ¹  O Lord! Frustrate their plans! ²  For I see violence and conflict in the city.

Drive out the scorner ¹  and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease. ² 

Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person ¹  to kindle strife. ² 

But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

Hatred ¹  stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions. ² 

A quick-tempered person ¹  stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger ²  calms ³  a quarrel. ⁴ 

Starting a quarrel ¹  is like letting out water; ²  stop it before strife breaks out! ³ 

The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; ¹  whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction. ² 

The greedy person ¹  stirs up dissension, ²  but the one who trusts ³  in the Lord will prosper. ⁴ 

An angry person ¹  stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person ²  is abounding in transgression. ³ 

With pride ¹  comes only ²  contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised. ³ 

For as the churning ¹  of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger ²  produces strife. ³ 

Why do you force me to witness injustice? ¹  Why do you put up with wrongdoing? ²  Destruction and violence confront ³  me; conflict is present and one must endure strife. ⁴ 

They are filled ¹  with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with ²  envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Or a person is chastened ¹  by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones, ² 

The lips of a fool ¹  enter into strife, ²  and his mouth invites ³  a flogging. ⁴ 

So there were quarrels ¹  between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. ²  (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.) ³