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

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

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

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

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

idolatry, sorcery, ¹  hostilities, ²  strife, ³  jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, ⁴  factions,

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

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

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

“I will provoke civil strife in Egypt, ¹  brothers will fight with each other, as will neighbors, cities, and kingdoms. ² 

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,