As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,  So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, “Am not I in sport?”  Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.   The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Proverbs 27:18-22